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National Insurance Act provides cover against sickness and unemployment
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The Soviet Union adopts the Gregorian calendar
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Limited numbers of women are given the vote for the first time
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Wilson's second inauguration
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U.S. enters World War I, declaring war on Germany
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Royal Flying Corps is established
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Massive flu epidemic reaches Britain
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Signing of Treaty of Versailles
The Big 4 at Versailles - Lloyd George,
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National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People founded by W. E. B. DuBois
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Bolsheviks over throw provisional government led by Alexander Kerensky, with workers and sailors capturing government buildings and the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, and eventually taking over Moscow.
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Scheidemann declared Germany a republic
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The armistice was signed and world war one ended
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The Bolsheviks took Lithuania and joined it with Belarus as a single Soviet republic.
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Herbert Asquith becomes Liberal prime minister of Great Britain
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Japan's politician Ito Hirobumi is assassinated in Manchuria by a Korean nationalist
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International Labour Organization (ILO) is founded. Protection of workers against sickness, disease and injury from their jobs one of its major goals.
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British government declares Sinn Fein's 'Dáil Eireann' (parliament) illegal
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Chancellor David Lloyd George introduces the 'People's Budget'
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A treaty between Norway and Russia allowed Russia to pursue mining in the Svalbard islands at Spitsbergen.
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Edward VII dies and is succeeded by George V
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Lenin’s New Economic Policy (NEP) was promulgated by decree.
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New Economic Policy ushers in a partial return to the market economy and a period of stability
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National Bison Range established on Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana.
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The Japanese Communist Party is founded
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The Treaty of Rapallo, pursuant to which Germany and the Soviet Union re-establish diplomatic relations, is signed.
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The Fascists named Benito Mussolini the Prime Minister of Italy
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Shigenobu Okuma becomes prime minister again
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The U.S. Supreme Court upholds an Oregon law of 1903 that prohibits the hiring of women in industry for over 10 hours a day
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The great Kanto earthquake devastates Tokyo
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Stalin divided remnants of Turkestan into the current Central Asian republics.
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First National Conference on Industrial Diseases held in Chicago.
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Hitler declared leader of the Nazi Party
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Collapse of the banking system
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Weeks-McLean Act gives Secretary of Agriculture power to regulate waterfowl seasons.
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The Soviet Union introduces its First Five-Year Plan.
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Goebbels appointed chief of the Nazi propaganda department
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First long distance telephone service, between New York and San Francisco, is demonstrated
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Herbert Hoover is inaugurated as the 31st president
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Wall Street stock market collapsed, beginning the Great Depression (October 1929)
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Britain, Japan, France, Italy and the USA sign the London Naval Treaty, an agreement to reduce naval warfare
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The Soviet Union began deporting land holders, known as kulaks, along with their families as part of the rural collectivization process.
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Unemployment in Germany reached 4.9 million
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USSR leader Joseph Stalin turned Abkhazia into an autonomous region of Georgia. Beria, his secret police chief, later resettled Georgians from the western part of the country in Abkhazia.
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Mass arrests of socialists
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Hitler stood for President, but Hindenburg, at 85 years of age, was re-elected
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Fall of the Bruning government
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Makoto Saito is appointed prime minister
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Papen Government resigned
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Schleicher's government fell
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George F. Kennan (1904-2005) established America’s first embassy in the Soviet Union.
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Jewish children were restricted entry into German schools
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First boycott of Jewish businesses and professionals
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Nazi Party became the only legal party in German
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The Soviet Union’s secret police organization-the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs-was better known as the NKVD. The NKVD replaced the State Political Administration, or GPU.
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The Candidate of Science degree is established in the USSR.
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The Soviet Union declares that the fascist states of Germany and Japan are the enemies
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The world's first children's railway opens in Tbilisi, USSR.
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Mussolini and Hitler sign an agreement known as the Roman-Berlin Axis
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Olympic Games were held in Berlin
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F. Roosevelt's second inauguration
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Japan begins a secret program of naval construction
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A clash between Chinese and Japanese troops ("Marco Polo Incident") lead to a general war
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Japan establishes the "Unit 731" research laboratory for biological warfare in Harbin, China, and tests biological weapons on war prisoners (10,000 die)
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Italy conquers Albania and Mussolini sides with Hitler and Fascist Germany
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All Jews were required to wear a yellow star of David on their clothing (August 1939)
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Germany Invades Poland
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United Nations is established
