1910s: World War I begins in the summer of 1914, with the United States joining the allies against Germany in 1917.
1940s and 50s: O'Neill finishes Long Day's Journey into Night prior to America's entry into World War E on December 7, 1941. The Cold War with the Soviet bloc flares into open combat in Korea, a "police action" ending with an armistice agreement signed on My 27, 1953, four months before O'Neill dies. In 1956 the Soviet Union cracks down on dissidents in Poland and Hungary; that same year Long Day's Journey into Night wins O'Neill, posthumously, his final Pulitzer Prize.
Today: The 1990s bring an end to the Cold War and to fears of a nuclear holocaust.
1910s: The airplane, automobile, and motion pictures, all in their infancy, begin a radical transformation of daily.....
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