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The main players at the signing were David Lloyd George, Georges Clemenceau, and Woodrow Wilson known as the "Big Three."
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The 18th Amendment was ratified. This banned all sale, manufacture, transportation and consumption of alcohol in the United States.
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The first meeting of the council of the League of Nations is held in London.
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The First Congress of the Comintern began in Moscow.
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Parliament enacts legislation limiting the work week to 48 hours and establishing a minimum wage.
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Leon Trotsky came in to office.
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Saito Makoto was appointed governor of Korea.
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The Royal Air Force takes control of all British Airship operations.
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The Radio Corporation of America (RCA) was founded with $20 million capitol.
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The first Bentley luxury car was invented.
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Winston Churchill announces plans to replace conscription with a 220,000 man volunteer army.
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Congress passes the Esch-Cummins Act wich returned railroads to private operation after WWI.
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The government proposes an annual tax on automobiles.
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Prices collapse and a long stagnation begins.
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The First Congress of the Communist Party of Great Britain opens in London.
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Parliament approves the Firemans Act instituting strict controls amd licensing of privately owned weapons.
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The 19th amendment was passed which gave women the right to vote.
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Oxford University admits women to full degree studies for the first time.
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The number of unemployed workers tops 1 million the government announces increased unemployment compensation.
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Gosplan, the economic planning committee of the Soviet Union, was created by a decree of the Sovnarkom.
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Rationing of coal begins.
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Warren G. Harding was elected as president.
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Great Britain signs a trade agreement with Soviet Russia.
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Great Britain's first birth control clinic is opened by Dr. Marie Stopes in Holloway.
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A decree of the Tenth Party Congress replaced war communism with the more liberal New Economic Policy.
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Guccio Gucci opens first boutique of fashion design in Florence.
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The first Miss America Paegent is held.
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Earle Dickson invented the first band aid.
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The first pop up toaster was invented by Charles Strite.
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804 people died in England and Wales of influenza during this week.
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THousands of cattle, sheep and pigs slaughtered to stem an outbreak of foot and mouth disease.
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The government announces plans to reduce public expenditures by 87,000,000 Euros.
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Italy's king put Benito Mussolini at the head of Italy's government.
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Music Hall wins the Grand National. Only 3 of 32 horses finish the race.
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Fascists and communists battle each other in the streets. Fascists prevail with help from the government.
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The Japanese Communist Party was founded.
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The British Broadcasting company is established.
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The Fascists named Benito Mussolini the Prime Minister of Italy.
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Germany did not make their reparation payment.
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The Reichstag building were the German and Parliament was burned by arson. The Nazi used the fire as an excuse to begin mass arrests of Communist citizens.
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The Great Kanto earthquake devastates Tokyo.
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A new currency called the Rentenmark was introduced.
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Beer Hall Putsch: Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party failed in an attempt to overthrow the German Government.
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Vladmir Lenin dies.
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Mussolini's fascist party wins national elections.
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The immigration act of 1924 was passed which limited the annual number of immigrants that could be admitted in to the country.
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US Congress approves the Exclusion act which prohibits further immigration from Japan.
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Mein Kampf was published which was Hitler's autobiography.
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Trotskey was forced to resign his military offices.
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Italian women are forbiden to teach philosophy, history, Italian language and literature, Latin and Greek in high schools.
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Austen Chamberlin was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Mussolini becomes the dictator of Italy.
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Novelist Grazia Deledda is the first Italian woman awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Germany joins the League of Nations by unanimous vote.
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Japanese Peasent Unions: Labor movement tried to recrute farmers - not many signed up.
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Japan's banking system collapsed.
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King George V opens the National Museum of Wales.
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The Jazz Singer was released as the first feature length motion picture with dialogue.
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The Oxford English Dictionary is completed after 70 years of work.
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Japan's population is 65 million.
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Otto Frederick Rohwedder invented the bread slicer.
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The first Japanese typewriter was invented by Kyota Sugimoto.
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Herbert Hoover was elected as the 31st president.
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Trotsky was banished from Soviet Union.
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This is the date that the stock market crashed. Unemployment rates skyrocketed. This was the time known as the Great Depression.
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The Museum of Modern Art opens in New York.
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Japan signs the London Naval Treaty which was an agreement to reduce Naval warfare.
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Hans Von Ohain and Sir Frank Whittle both co-invented the jet engine.
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The German Federal Election took place.
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The Sakuraki was founded which was a secret group of Japanese officers who wanted military dictatorship.
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Japan invades Manchuria.
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Nationalist military officers assassinate Prime Minister Inukai, attack banks and police stations.
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Emelia Earhart flew solo across the Atlantic Ocean and was the first woman to do so.
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The First Five-Year Plan was announced that the plan had been fulfilled.
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Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of the German Reich.
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The Enabling Act was passed which declared Hitler a legal dictator.
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Burning of "un-German" books.
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The Dust Bowl strom hit. This was a period of severe dust storms and drought affecting the midwestern states.
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Fujifilm Holdings Corporation is founded. This was a Japanese photography and imaging company.
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The Italian national football team wins its first FIFA World Cup.
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Hitler declares himself fuehrer.
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The Writers Union was established.
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The first Alcoholics Anonymous meeting was held in Ohio.
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The Social Security Act was passed which limited poverty and unemployment.
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Italy invades Ethiopia.
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The Great Purge took place.
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The summer olympics were held in Berlin.
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Japan signs anti-communist pact with Germany and Italy.
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The Golden Gate Bride in San Francisco was built.
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The second Sino-Japanese war. A war between the republic of China and the empire of Japan.
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Canon was founded.
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The portable electrocardiograph was invented by Taro Takemi.
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Stalin signs a non-aggression pact with Hitler.
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Mussolini and Hitler sign the "Pact of Steel."
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Hitler and the Nazis wanted Lebensraum. They wanted to recover land that was lost during World War I.
