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| 1919 |
| | | Mustafa Kemal Atatürk leads resistance to the Greek invasion of western Turkey | |
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| 1919 |
| | | Employers' refusal to allow collective bargaining prompts a general strike in Winnipeg, the largest dispute of its kind in Canada's history | |
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| 1919 |
| | | Léonide Massine, Ottorino Respighi and André Derain collaborate on the ballet La Boutique Fantasque | |
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| 1919 |
| | | John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown fly from St John's in Newfoundland to Clifden in Ireland | |
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| 1919 |
| | | Mussolini's Fascist party rapidly acquires an aggressive presence, thanks to his gangs of armed thugs in their blackshirt uniforms | |
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| 1919 |
| | | US boxer Jack Dempsey defeats Jess Willard for the world heavyweight title, sending him from the ring with a broken jaw | |
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| 1919 |
| | | At least thirty-eight people are killed in a race riot in Chicago | |
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| 1919 |
| | | Adolf Hitler joins the tiny German Workers' party, the members of which share his own virulent anti-semitism | |
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| 1919 |
| | | French poets Louis Aragon and André Breton launch Littérature, a surrealist review | |
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| 1919 |
| | | The League of Nations makes South West Africa (Namibia) a mandated British territory, to be administered by South Africa | |
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| 1919 |
| | | Afghanistan finally achieves international recognition as an independent nation | |
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| 1919 |
| | | Lillian Gish stars as a Cockney girl in D.W. Griffith's inter-racial film romance Broken Blossoms, set in London's slums | |
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| 1919 |
| | | Nancy Astor, as MP for Plymouth, becomes the first woman to take her seat in Britain's House of Commons | |
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| 1919 |
| | | On the death of Louis Botha, Jan Smuts succeeds him as prime minister of South Africa | |
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| 1919 |
| | | The port of Fiume, belonging to Yugoslavia, is seized by Gabriele d'Annunzio and 300 Italian volunteers | |
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| 1919 |
| | | Steelworkers go on strike in the US, attempting a major confrontation with industrial management | |
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| 1919 |
| | | Walter Gropius becomes director of the newly formed Bauhaus in Weimar | |
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| 1919 |
| | | President Woodrow Wilson suffers a severe stroke that renders him largely incapable during the final seventeen months of his presidency | |
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| 1919 |
| | | Marcel Duchamp adds a moustache and beard to a postcard of the Mona Lisa, and gives it the subtly offensive French title LHOOQ | |
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| 1919 |
| | | In The Economic Consequences of the Peace Maynard Keynes publishes a strong attack on the reparations demanded from Germany | |
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| 1919 |
| | | A White army, advancing on Moscow, is stopped about 250 miles from the city | |
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| 1919 |
| | | The actors Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin establish United Artists with the director D.W. Griffith | |
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| 1919 |
| | | A White army occupies hills overlooking Petrograd before being driven back by Trotsky | |
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| 1919 |
| | | Canadian National Railways is formed from two of the country's largest rail systems | |
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| 1919 |
| | | The phrase Abstract Expressionism is first used, describing the work of Wassily Kandinsky | |
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| 1919 |
| | | Darius Milhaud provides the score for Jean Cocteau's pantomime ballet Le Boeuf sur le toit | |
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| 1919 |
| | | John Singer Sargent completes Gassed, a powerful image of one of the particular horrors of the recent war | |
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| 1919 |
| | | The prime minister of Poland, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, resigns his post so as to concentrate on his concert career | |
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| 1919 |
| | | Boston Red Sox sell their star player, Babe Ruth, to the New York Yankees for $125,000 | |
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| 1919 |
| | | Sherwood Anderson establishes a reputation with a collection of short stories, Winesburg, Ohio | |
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| 1919 January I |
| | | The Spartacus League transforms itself into the Communist party of Germany | |
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| 1919 January 6 |
| | | A vast crowd, assembling in Berlin, calls for a revolution and begins to seize public buildings | |
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| 1919 January I5 |
| | | After ten days of street fighting in Berlin, Spartacus leaders Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg are captured and shot | |
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| 1919 January I8 |
| | | The delegates to the peace conference in Paris, mainly concerned with the terms to be imposed on Germany, hold their first session | |
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| 1919 February |
| | | The German assembly meets in Weimar and elects Ebert as president of the new republic | |
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| 1919 April |
| | | Delegates to the Paris peace conference unanimously establish the League of Nations | |
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| 1919 June 21 |
| | | German sailors scuttle every one of the fifty warships held by the British in Scapa Flow | |
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| 1919 June 28 |
| | | The peace treaty with Germany, ending the world war, is signed in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles | |
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| 1919 June 28 |
| | | The Versailles Treaty declares that Germany must pay reparations for wartime damages, with the precise amount to be decided by May 1921 | |
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| 1919 June 28 |
| | | The peace-makers in Paris assign the Sudetenland, with its 3.5 million German-speaking inhabitants, to the new republic of Czechoslovakia | |
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| 1919 June 28 |
| | | The Versailles Treaty makes Danzig (or Gdansk) a free city (from 10 January 1920), under the protection of the League of Nations | |
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| 1919 June 28 |
| | | The Versailles Treaty provides a corridor of land to give Poland access to Danzig and the Baltic, thereby dividing two parts of Germany | |
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| 1919 June 28 |
| | | The German-speaking inhabitants of South Tirol are incorporated within Italy under the Versailles peace terms | |
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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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