This document provides an overview of topics to be covered in Week 1, Lesson 2 of a 20th century history class, including the colonization of Africa, imperialism, the Industrial Revolution, capitalism, socialism, fascism, European and Asian geography quizzes, and 40 important people, inventions, and events of the 20th century such as the Berlin Wall, Winston Churchill, the Cold War, Elvis Presley, the Great Depression, and Martin Luther King Jr.
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TIME LINE - Contemporary World Literature
Contemporary World Literature Authors and their Work
Historical Events Showing the Context of the Writing
1893
Sample Entry:
*Rabindranath Tagore, Punishment
Offered a new voice to Indian expression. He was a short-story writer, song composer, playwright, essayist, and painter who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. Tagore introduced new prose and verse forms and the use of colloquial language into Bengali literature, thereby freeing it from traditional models based on classical Sanskrit. He is generally regarded as the outstanding creative artist of modern India. I enjoy the natural quality and the personal tone of his verse: "The carriage stands at the door. It is midday./ The autumn sun is gradually gathering strength." Etc.
1895 Higuchi Ichiyo, Child's Play
Notes:
ca. 1897–1902 Washington Matthews conducts studies of the Navajo "The Night Chant."
1899–1902 Boer War in South Africa.
1900
Boxer uprisings in China protest European presence.
Max Planck proposes quantum theory, the first step in the discovery of the atom.
1902 Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
1903 Henry James, The Ambassadors
1903 Wright brothers invent the powered airplane.
1905
Sigmund Freud, Dora (Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria)
Rubén Darío, Songs of Life and Hope
F. T. Marinetti, Futurist Manifesto
1905
Modern labor movement begins with foundation of International Workers of the World (IWW).
Partition of Bengal based on Hindu and Muslim populations.
1907 August Strindberg, The Ghost Sonata
1907 Japanese immigration to the United States prohibited.
1908
Gertrude Stein, Three Lives
Rainer Maria Rilke, New Poems
1909 Commercial manufacture of plastic begins.
1910
China abolishes slavery.
Mexican Revolution (1910–11).
NAACP founded in United States.
Post-Impressionist Exhibition in London.
1911 Constantine Cavafy, Ithaka
1911 Revolution establishes Chinese Republic after 267 years of Manchu rule.
1912
Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali
Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
1912–1913 Balkan wars.
1913
Marcel Proust, Swann's Way, first volume of Remembrance of Things Past (1913–27) Insert your annotation here:
D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers
1914 James Joyce, Dubliners, which includes The Dead
1914–1918 World War I involves Europe, Turkey, and the United States.
1915
Albert Einstein formulates general theory of relativity.
First transcontinental phone call, in America
1916
Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis, The Castle (1926)
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
1917 T. S. Eliot, Prufrock and Other Observations
1917 Russian Revolution overthrows Romanov Dynasty.
1918
Lu Xun, Diary of a Madman, the first story in modern Chinese vernacular
Tristan Tzara, Dada Manifesto
1918 Women over 30 given vote in Great Britain.
1918–1920 Global influenza epidemic kills millions.
1919 League of Nations formed (U.S. Senate rejects membership, 1920).
1920 Edith W ...
7. 1. The Berlin Wall 21. Neil Armstrong
2. Winston Churchill 22. B-52 Mitchell
3. The Cold War 23. Osama Bin Laden
4. Communism 24. Boeing B-17
5. Crime & Disaster 25. Boer War
6. Cuban Missile Crisis 26. Niels Bohr (Atomic Structure/Radiation)
7. Elvis Presley 27. Bonnie and Clyde
8. Franklin D. Roosevelt 28. George Bush
9. The Great Depression 29. Al Capone
10. Saddam Hussein 30. Fidel Castro (dictator of Cuba)
11. John F. Kennedy 31. Charlie Chaplin
12. Russian Revolution 32. Charles de Gaulle
13. Joseph Stalin 34. Walt Disney
14. Vietnam War 35. Amelia Earhart (First woman to fly)
15. The Invention of the Airplane 36. Thomas Edison
16. Muhammad Ali 37. Henry Ford
17. Idi Amin (dictator of Uganda) 38. Sigmund Frued (founder of psychoanalysis)
18. Roald Amundsen (polar explorer) 39. Mahatma Ghandi
19. Susan B. Anthony (women's suffrage) 40.Marilyn Munroe
20. The Armenian Genocide
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