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- Signed in the hall of mirrors inside the Palace of Versailles
- It was a treaty signed by Germany that ended WW1
- Germany was forced to sign it by the 'big three, Woodrow Wilson, David Lloyd George and Georges Clemenceau
- if forced Germany to pay financial reparations, disarm, lose territory, and give up all of its overseas colonies to the big three
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- The Roaring Twenties was a decade of economic growth and widespread prosperity, driven by recovery from wartime devastation and deferred spending, a boom in construction, and the rapid growth of consumer goods such as automobiles and electricity in North America and Europe and a few other developed countries -The 1920s was the first decade to have a nickname: “Roaring 20s" or "Jazz Age."
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- The League of Nations officially came into existence on 10 January 1920. On 15 November 1920, 41 member states gathered in Geneva for the opening of the first session of the Assembly. This represented many existing states and corresponded to more than 70% of the world's population.
- They came together to contrive new means and methods for peacefully settling international disputes.
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- the Dawn Plan was a plan that successfully resolved the issue of World War I reparations that Germany had to pay. It ended a crisis in European diplomacy following World War I and the Treaty of Versailles
- Germany's annual reparation payments would be reduced, increasing over time as its economy improved; the full amount to be paid, however, was left undetermined. Economic policy-making in Berlin would be reorganized under foreign supervision and a new currency,
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- the first Electronic television was successfully demonstrated in San Francisco on Sept. 7, 1927. The system was designed by Philo Taylor Farnsworth, a 21-year-old inventor who had lived in a house without electricity until he was 14.
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- The first feature film originally presented as a talkie (although it had only limited sound sequences) was The Jazz Singer, which premiered on October 6, 1927. A major hit, it was made with Vitaphone, which was at the time the leading brand of sound-on-disc technology.
- The gradual transition from silent films to talkies took place between 1926 and 1930 and included many small steps — both technological developments and adjustments to audience expectations — before it was complete.
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- The Great Depression was an economic shock that impacted most countries across the world. It was a period of economic depression that became evident after a major fall in stock prices in the United States. The economic contagion began around September 1929 and led to the Wall Street stock market crash of October 24
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- It was a major American stock market crash that occurred in the autumn of 1929. It started in September and ended in mid-November when share prices on the New York Stock Exchange collapsed
- caused the Great Depression as everyone lost money. Investors and businesses both put significant amounts of money into the market and when it crashed, tremendous amounts of money were lost. causing Businesses to close and people to lose their savings.
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- On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany by German President Paul von Hindenburg. Hitler was the leader of the Nazi Party (The National Socialist German Workers Party). The Nazis were radically right-wing, antisemitic, anticommunist, and anti-democratic.
- Hitler was appointed chancellor in 1933 because at the time the Nazi Party was extremely popular