Yên Bái mutiny challenges French colonial rule

The London agreements put the Dawes Plan into effect, rescheduling Germany’s reparations and arranging international loans. It eased the crisis following French and Belgian occupation of the Ruhr, but...

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...

Gandhi and a group of volunteers set out from Sabarmati toward the Arabian Sea to defy the colonial salt monopoly. Salt taxation burdened ordinary households and made a visible focus for mass protest....

Iraq and Britain signed a treaty that prepared the formal end of the mandate while maintaining British military access, consultation rights, and strategic influence. Iraqi nationalists criticized...

Thousands of peasants marched in Nghệ An demanding lower taxes, land, and an end to colonial and feudal oppression. French forces attacked the demonstration from aircraft, killing and wounding many...

The pact between Gandhi and Viceroy Lord Irwin suspended the civil disobedience campaign and released many political prisoners in exchange for Congress participation in a London conference. It...

Japanese troops used an explosion on the South Manchuria Railway as a pretext to seize Mukden and occupy Manchuria. China appealed to the League of Nations, exposing the weakness of collective...