John Steinbeck lived through many exciting times in history.
different types of struggles in his own life. John Steinbeck, a man who had some.
what of a depressing life, lived through a depressing time in history, and wrote.
books mainly about depressing and tragic stories. John Steinbeck lived through.
an action packed time in history. Steinbeck lived through World War I.
(1919-1919), which changed America, and its set ways about men and women's role.
is society. A year after World War I ended, the proabition started. This became.
an odd time in American's history. The proabition law actually made people drink.
more, because people know they were forbidden from drinking. The proabition law.
lasted for ten years (1920-1930). A year before the proabition ended, the stock.
market crashed in 1929. This day became known as "Black Tuesday". The stock.
market crash sent America into the Great Depression (1929-1941). This was the.
time when Americans did not trust banks, and were barely feeding their families.
Three years after Franklin D. Roosevelt became president in 1936. World War II.
begun in 1939. This war lasted for five years. World War II was fought against.
Italy, Japan, and Germany, that caused many Americans to hate Japanese people.
living in America. Most of the Japanese people were forced to live in camps for.
"safety reasons" not for them, but for Americans. World War II helped pull.
America all the way out of depression, by 1941. At this time Steinbeck was an.
employer at the New York Herald Tribune (John 1). Steinbeck used his once in a.
lifetime experience and wrote Once There Was War (1). During this time span.
between 1914, and 1945, societies values went back and fourth. For an example,.
after World War I, and during the proabition most people wanted to party and.
drink all the time. This fifteen years time span plenty of people were coming.
into "new money". Some because they were bootleggers, others because they knew.
how to do business.