Dawes Plan restructures German reparations after Ruhr occupation

The Turkish Grand National Assembly abolished the sultanate, formally ending the Ottoman dynasty’s political rule. The decision followed military victory by the Turkish national movement and the...

The Irish Free State came into being under a constitution built around the 1921 treaty, with dominion status and a continuing relationship to the British Commonwealth. The new state had substantial...

The Lausanne convention required the compulsory exchange of most Greek Orthodox residents of Turkey and Muslim residents of Greece, with limited exceptions. It turned religious identity into a...

Lausanne recognized the sovereignty of the new Turkish state and replaced the failed Sèvres treaty. It confirmed borders and addressed population exchange, while leaving Kurdish aspirations and...

The Turkish Republic was proclaimed after the Ottoman monarchy’s abolition and the national movement’s military and diplomatic victories. The republic emerged from imperial collapse, war, mass...

Druze fighters in Jabal al-Druze attacked French forces, beginning an uprising that spread across Syria and into Lebanon. Peasants, workers, veterans, and urban nationalists joined the revolt...

European governments signed the Locarno agreements to guarantee Germany’s western borders and establish arbitration commitments. Germany’s eastern borders with Poland and Czechoslovakia received no...

Germany entered the League of Nations with a permanent seat on its Council after Locarno and the Dawes reparation plan. Its admission marked a move from exclusion toward diplomatic reintegration,...

Violence spread from Jerusalem after months of disputes over the Western Wall/Buraq and British mandate policy. The crisis was rooted in growing opposition to land loss, immigration, and the absence...

Vietnamese soldiers in the French colonial army joined members of the Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng in a revolt at Yên Bái. The uprising was quickly defeated and followed by executions and arrests. It...