Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht are murdered after the Berlin uprising

The armistice signed near Padua ended Austria-Hungary’s participation in the war and accelerated the empire’s disintegration. National councils declared new states, while the settlement left border...

Mass strikes and sailors’ mutinies spread into a revolution. The Kaiser abdicated and a republic was proclaimed. The upheaval reflected exhaustion, hunger, military defeat, and labor resistance; the...

The armistice took effect at 11 a.m. on 11 November. It ended major fighting between the Allies and Germany but did not settle the political, social, and imperial conflicts that had produced the...

With the collapse of the occupying empires, Poland re-emerged as an independent state after more than a century of partition. Its borders remained disputed and were shaped by war, diplomacy, and...

Caribbean soldiers waiting in Taranto to return home protested unequal pay and degrading labor assignments, including latrine work. The revolt was suppressed and its leaders punished. The episode...

The victorious powers opened the conference to negotiate treaties and borders. Delegations from smaller states and activists from colonized societies sought a voice, but the Great Powers controlled...

Irish Volunteers attacked a Royal Irish Constabulary escort at Soloheadbeg, killing two officers and seizing explosives. The action marked the opening of the Irish War of Independence, following years...

Delegates from Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, and the United States met in Paris alongside the peace conference. They called for African participation in government and challenged the transfer of...

Mass demonstrations erupted across Korea under Japanese colonial rule, inspired in part by global talk of self-determination. Japanese authorities violently suppressed the protests. The movement...

British authorities arrested nationalist leaders seeking to present Egypt’s case at the Paris peace conference. Protests, strikes, and rural resistance followed across Egypt, involving students,...