Turkey is proclaimed a republic after imperial collapse

The treaty signed at Versailles on 28 June imposed territorial, military, and financial terms on Germany. It entered into force on 10 January 1920. Germany's overseas colonies were transferred into...

A revolt against British occupation began in the Middle Euphrates region and spread through rural and urban networks between June and November 1920. Tribal fighters, religious figures, and local...

The Allied powers signed the Treaty of Sèvres with the Ottoman government, proposing extensive territorial losses, international controls, and new zones of influence. The agreement was never...

Britain ended the formal protectorate and declared Egypt an independent sovereign state on 28 February. It reserved control over imperial communications, defence, foreign residents and minorities, and...

The Lausanne Treaty recognized the borders of the new Turkish state and replaced the unimplemented Treaty of Sèvres. It ended the legal state of war between Turkey and the Allied powers, but did not...

Chiang Kai-shek's forces and allied armed groups attacked Communist and labor organizations in Shanghai. The purge, remembered as the April 12 Incident or Shanghai Massacre, expanded into...

Fifteen governments signed a treaty renouncing war as an instrument of national policy. Britain signed on behalf of parts of its empire, including India, without separate representation for...

A sharp fall in share prices on 24 October was followed by further crashes and a prolonged economic depression. The crisis spread through collapsing trade, credit, and commodity prices....

Mahatma Gandhi and 78 volunteers left Sabarmati Ashram for the coastal village of Dandi to challenge the British salt tax and monopoly. The march turned an everyday necessity into a mass...

An explosion near the Japanese-owned South Manchurian Railway was used as a pretext for the Kwantung Army to seize cities across Manchuria. China appealed to the League of Nations, whose inquiry...