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1918 November 23
 
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Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, commander of the German army in East Africa, surrenders after four stubborn years of resistance      
1914-1918
 
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The Great War has resulted in some 8 million dead in the armed forces of the rival nations      
1914-1918
 
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Approximately 7 million civilians are calculated to have died as a direct result of the four years of world war      
1919
 
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The armed supporters of Sinn Fein become the IRA, or Irish Republican Army, in Ireland's war of independence       
1919
 
   
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk leads resistance to the Greek invasion of western Turkey      
1919
 
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A White army, advancing on Moscow, is stopped about 250 miles from the city     
1919
 
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A White army occupies hills overlooking Petrograd before being driven back by Trotsky      
1919  January I8
 
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The delegates to the peace conference in Paris, mainly concerned with the terms to be imposed on Germany, hold their first session     
1919 June 21
 
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German sailors scuttle every one of the fifty warships held by the British in Scapa Flow      
1919 June 28
 
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The peace treaty with Germany, ending the world war, is signed in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles