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The Treaty of Versailles blamed Germany for the First World War. As a result of this Germany was also held accountable for the cost of the war and the Treaty dictated that compensation would have to be paid to the Allies.
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Nineteenth Amendment gives women the right to vote.
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Chinas communist party is founded.
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Louis Armstrong plays for king oliver's Creole jazz band in chiraq
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King Tut's tomb is discovered in Egypt
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Mustafa Kemal becomes first president of new Republic of Turkey.
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Time magazine begins publication.
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Calvin Coolidge is elected president!
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The scopes trial take place in Tennesse.
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Hirohito becomes emporer of Japan.
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Charles Lindbergh makes the first nonstopsolo transatlantic
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President Alvaro Obregon of Mexico is assassinated.
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Army officers led by Jose Uriburu seize control of government of Argentina.
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Japan invades Manchuria
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From prison, Mohandas K. Gandhi leads a protest against British policies in India.
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Ibn Sa'ud becomes kink of newly-united Saudi Arabia.
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Adolf Hitler takes power in Germany
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Hitler and the Nazi party come to power in Germany
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Pearl Harbor bombing.
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Japan withdraws from the League of nations.