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| 1919 June 28 |
| | | German East Africa is to be governed by Britain as Tanganyika, under a League of Nations mandate | |
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| 1919 |
| | | To President Wilson's profound disappointment the US Congress, by failing to ratify the treaty of Versailles, opts out of the League of Nations | |
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| 1920 May |
| | | League of Nations mandates give Britain responsibility for Iraq, Transjordan and Palestine | |
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| 1920 May |
| | | League of Nations mandates give France responsibility for Syria and Lebanon | |
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| 1920 August |
| | | A punitive peace treaty, negotiated at Sèvres, is designed to dismember the Ottoman empire | |
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| 1920 August 10 |
| | | The sultan of Turkey signs the Treaty of Sèvres with the Allies but it is rejected by the new nationalist government | |
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| 1920 November 11 |
| | | The body of an Unknown Warrior, selected at random from British war graves, is buried at the entrance to Westminster Abbey | |
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| 1920 November 11 |
| | | The body of an unknown French soldier is laid to rest in a chapel within the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, and a few weeks later is buried at ground level beneath the arch | |
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| 1921 |
| | | The commission considering the level of Germany's war reparations to the Allies decides on $33 billion | |
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| 1921 November 11 |
| | | The first of America's 'unknown soldiers' is placed in the new Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery | |
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