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League of Nations
Holds first meeting at Geneva, Switzerland. U.S. Dept. of Justice “red hunt” nets thousands of radicals; aliens deported -
Reparations Fix Germany Government
Reparations Commission fixes German liability at 132 billion gold marks. German inflation begins. -
Mussolini marches on Rome
Forms Fascist government. Irish Free State, a self-governing dominion of British Empire, officially proclaimed. Kemal Atatürk, founder of modern Turkey, overthrows last sultan. James Joyce's Ulysses. -
Adolf Hitler's “Beer Hall Putsch” in Munich fails
Is sentenced to five years in prison where he writes Mein Kampf; released after eight months. -
Death of Lenin
Stalin wins power struggle, rules as Soviet dictator until death in 1953. Italian Fascists murder Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti. Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall and oilmen Harry Sinclair and Edward L. Doheny are charged with conspiracy and bribery in the Teapot Dome scandal -
Nellie Tayloe Ross elected governor of Wyoming
First woman governor elected in U.S. Locarno conferences seek to secure European peace by mutual guarantees. -
General strike in Britain
The 1926 general strike in the United Kingdom was a general strike that lasted 10 days, from 3 May 1926 to 13 May 1926. It was called by the general council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in an unsuccessful attempt to force the British government to act to prevent wage reduction and worsening conditions for 800,000 locked-out coal miners -
Germany Great Depression
Socialists riot in Vienna; general strike follows acquittal of Nazis for political murder. -
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Outlawing war, signed in Paris by 65 nations -
Trotsky expelled from USSR
In U.S., stock market prices collapse, with U.S. securities losing $26 billion—first phase of Depression and world economic crisis. St. Valentine's Day gangland massacre in Chicago. Edwin Powell Hubble proposes theory of expanding universe.
