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Armistice with Germany ends the war.
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The Weimar Republic was established in Germany.
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Chinese students protest the Paris Peace Conference.
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A deadly influenza pandemic sweeps across the world killing more than 20 million people.
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First Pan-African Congress meets in Paris.
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Delegates to the Paris Peace Conference draft the Treaty of Versailles.
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In Hungary a military strongman Nicholas Horthy overthrew the Communist-Led Government.
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The Red Scare sweeps the United States.
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50 British soldiers opened fire on a peaceful unarmed crowd killing 400 and wounding more than 1100.
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The 1920's became known as the Jazz Age.
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In the United States alcohol became prohibited when the 18th amendment went into effect.
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Chinese Communist Party was founded, Sun Yixian and Guomindang fight the warlords.
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Benito Mussolini takes to power of Italy after the March on Rome.
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Hitler failed to seize power in Munich.
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France occupied the coal-rich Ruhr Valley from Germany.
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Several European nations signed the Locarno treaties for world peace.
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Jiang Jieshi takes over Guomindang after Sun dies.
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More than three million workers go on strike in Britain.
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Military hero Joseph Pilsudski took control of Poland.
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Guomindang and Chinese Communists fight warlords in the Northern Expedition.
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Joseph Stalin launches the first of his Five Year Plans in the Soviet Union.
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The Great Depression begins in the United States.
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Stalin wanted to wipe out all Kulaks and sent them to labor camps.
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Construction of the Maginot Line begins on the border of France and Germany.
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Many Soviet women started working in medicine, engineering, and sciences.
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Stalin's ruthless policies combined with failed crops caused mass famine in the Soviet Union.
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If peasants failed to meet quotas, Stalin seized the land and sold all the crops.
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The prohibition on alcohol was repealed in the United States.
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Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany.
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Communists retreat in what becomes known as the Long March.
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Nazi Party in Germany passes the Nuremberg Laws limiting the rights of Jews.
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The USSR was made up of 11 Socialist Republics.
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A young Jew whose parents had been mistreated in Germany shot and wounded a German Diplomat in Paris.
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German mobs smashed the windows of Jewish homes and business, looted Jewish shops, and burned synagogues.
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Stalin staged a series of spectacular public show trials in Moscow.
