British rule is consolidated in Nigeria by the merging of north and south as a single colony

The British government changes the status of Egypt from a Turkish province to a British protectorate

Woodrow Wilson sends US marines to take control in Haiti after a spate of political assassinations

More than 300 die when British troops fire on a peaceful demonstration in Amritsar

League of Nations mandates give Britain responsibility for Iraq, Transjordan and Palestine

League of Nations mandates give France responsibility for Syria and Lebanon

The Balfour Report, by former UK prime minister A.J. Balfour, suggests the way forward for the British Commonwealth of Nations

Mussolini's treaty with Ahmed Zogu gives Fascist Italy a dominant position in Albania

Jomo Kenyatta becomes the editor of Muigwithania, the newspaper of the Kikuyu Central Association

The Japanese occupy the Chinese state of Manchuria

Japan renames the Chinese province of Manchuria, calling it Manchukuo – supposedly independent but in fact a puppet state

The US military government is finally withdrawn from Haiti after nineteen years

Neo-Destour, a party demanding Tunisian independence, has Habib Bourguiba as its secretary general

Kim Il Sung leads a Communist guerrilla campaign against the Japanese occupation of Korea

Warsaw falls, after a brave resistance, whereupon Germany and Russia carve up Poland

Germany takes control of Romania, to secure the country's rich oil fields

Mussolini plans a new Roman empire, reaching like the first one round the entire Mediterranean

The Vietminh is founded as a guerrilla force to liberate Vietnam from the Japanese, and Ho Chi Minh soon emerges as the leader

Mahatma Gandhi launches the Quit India Movement, calling on a large crowd in Bombay to 'do or die' in the struggle to expel the British

Mahatma Gandhi and nearly all the leaders of India's Congress party are arrested and will remain in prison until the end of the war

Gamal Abdel Nasser and army colleagues form a secret party, the Free Officers, to fight for an independent Egyptian republic

Achmed Sukarno makes a unilateral declaration of Indonesian independence, and leads the subsequent struggle against the Dutch

With the surrender of the Japanese, Vietminh guerrillas seize the capital of Vietnam, Hanoi

Ho Chi Minh proclaims the democratic republic of Vietnam, independent of the colonial power, France

The Indochina War breaks out in Vietnam between the French colonial forces and the Vietminh