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It was one of the peace treaties that was signed at the end of World War I. It was signed on 28 June 1919. The people who signed the treaty were President Wilson of the United States, Prime Minister Lloyd George of Great Britain, Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau of France and Prime Minister Vittorio Orlando of Italy.
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Hara Takashi, the leader of the conservative party Seiyukai, assumed the position of Prime Minister.He was the first person of modest origins to take this role, and his success was taken as a good sign by Western observers.
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Hara Takashi, a protégé of Saionji and a major influence in the prewar Seiyokai cabinets, had become the first commoner to serve as prime minister.
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Communist revolutionaries attempt to seize control of Berlin but are defeated by Freikorps troops.
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The spartacist uprising was stopped by freikorps in berlin
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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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german gov. meeting with Weimar making the Weimar Republic official and making Ebert the first president of the W.R and Schiedemann the first chancellor.
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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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The Treaty of Versailles is signed by all parties, formally ending hostilities in World War I.
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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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Congress passes the Esch-Cummins Act wich returned railroads to private operation after WWI.
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Winston Churchill announces plans to replace conscription with a 220,000 man volunteer army.
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The two-party political system that had been developing in Japan since the turn of the century finally came of age after World War I.
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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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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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Kato represented Japan at the Washington Naval Conference at which the Allied powers arrived to accords fixing the number of battleships that each could possess: five for the United States, five for England, and three for Japan.
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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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Italian fascist Benito Mussolini becomes the prime minister of Italy, after his successful ‘march on Rome’.
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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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french and belgian topps march into the ruhr germanys largest industrial site and german workers begin passive leading to the hyperinflation period
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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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he died in 1923, it was followed by a terrible earthquake that devastated Japan in the same year, made necessary a reorganization and reconstruction of the nation's scourged economy.
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He took advantage of long-standing relationships he had throughout the government, won the support of the surviving genro and the House of Peers, and brought into his cabinet as army minister Tanaka Giichi, who had a greater appreciation of favorable civil-military relations than his predecessors.
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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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The NSDAP launches the Beer Hall Putsch, an attempt to seize control of the Bavarian government.
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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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Mein Kampf was published which was Hitler's autobiography.
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Vladmir Lenin dies.
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The treason trial of Adolf Hitler begins, inviting considerable publicity. He is later sentenced to five years’ prison.
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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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Mussolini's fascist party wins national elections.
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US Congress approves the Exclusion act which prohibits further immigration from Japan.
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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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The Museum of Modern Art opens in New York.
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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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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 death of President Hindenburg. Hitler assumes his powers and becomes Fuhrer.
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Hitler publicly declares that he will not accept any ministry in the government, other than the chancellorship
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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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The Enabling Act is passed, effectively allowing Hitler to pass laws without the Reichstag.
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Hitler signs an agreement with Reichswehr generals to downsize the SA and expand the military.
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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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1935, Germany become a fascist state. The government exercised total control over all political, economic, and cultural activities. The unemployment rate in Germany was epidemic.
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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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Germany signs an anti-communist alliance with Japan to block Soviet expansion.
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Japan signs anti-communist pact with Germany and Italy.
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Stalin signs a non-aggression pact with Hitler.
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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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Hitler secretly meets military commanders in Berlin and lays out his plans for expansion and war.
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Mussolini and Hitler sign the "Pact of Steel."
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The invasion of poland was made by Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingen. This marked the start the begininng of world war two. It began on September 1, 1939. It was one week after the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact.
