1930-1945 , Literature and Historical Events in the US

This time was one of the most fascinating times of the 19^th century . In the 1930s we had it all  recessions , war, criminals, celebrities and the raise of Hollywood . This time was marked by  aconstant change in the whole country as a whole in society and demographically . Between coming back from a recession in the early 1930’s to the end of WWII the country faced really big challenges during that time . Some of the most remarkable  topics of the 1930’s were the following : 

Al Capone Imprisoned for Income Tax Evasion was headline news all over the country and the World . 1931 federal persecutors could not find nothing criminal implicating to Al Capone, therefore the only way to get him was for Tax evasion. The remarkable part of all this is the fact that Al Capone was in fact a very intelligent man too bad that he used all that power to become one of the most notorious gangsters of our modern time.  

Some of most notorious events that Capone some how participated (indirectly) was the Saint Valentine’s Massacre that eliminated some of his enemies.

*1931 is also marked as the year that the United States of America got officially a National Anthem

*1933 News arrived to the United States that Austrian born Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany.

*1934 Another of the most notorious criminals were kill that year Bonnie and Clyde who were well known bank robbers

*1936 Nazi Germany is in shock after an African American from Alabama  Jesse Owens wins 3 individual Gold medals in the middle of Nazi Germany’s rhetoric of racial superiority.

*1939 World War II Begins .. Nazi Germany invades Poland .  

*1941 Japan attack Perl Harbor 

*1944 D-Day… Under the Command of Dwight Eisenhower the United States invaded the cost of France (Normandy) June 6 , 1944 . This event marked the entrance of The United States officially to the war in Europe. 

Literature

We can think many events or personalities in the Literature World but Ernest Hemingway deserves to have a solo spot during this time.. His novels and books been read all over the World . My Favorite book is the Old man and the Sea, which I had the pleasure to read back in school in my home country (Ecuador) , a funny fact about this is that when I lived in Italy my friend's sister was reading the same book for her Literature and Theater class. 

Ernest Hemingway was born July 21, 1899 and died July 2, 1961.  He was born in Oak Park, Illinois Chicago.  He was a veteran of World War I.  Hemingway excelled in both academics and athletics while attending Oak Park and River Forest High School.  After World War One, Hemingway returned to Oak Park, in 1920, and found a job with Toronto Star newspaper, as a freelancer.   In 1939, Hemingway went to Key West, Florida.  70% of the novels he would create would be created in writer's den in the upper floor of the converted garage, in back of this house.  Hemingway killed himself by self inflicted shotgun wound to the head. (Saroyan, 2012)  

Sources 

http://dic.academic.ru/pictures/enwiki/87/William_Saroyan.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/40/WilliamSaroyan_TheHumanComedy.jpg

http://www.bookpoi.com/images/Front%20cover%20For%20Whom%20the%20bell%20Tolls.jpg

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s2/Time/timefr.html