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1 day ago · The League of Nations ( French: Société des Nations [sɔsjete de nɑsjɔ̃]) was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. [1] . It was founded on 10 January 1920 by the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War.
5 days ago · Treaty of Versailles, peace document signed at the end of World War I by the Allied and associated powers and by Germany in the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles, France, on June 28, 1919; it took force on January 10, 1920. Gauge the moods of the European people and statesmen as Woodrow Wilson arrived to forge an end to World War I.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
2 days ago · The Second Italo-Ethiopian War, also referred to as the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, was a war of aggression waged by Italy against Ethiopia, which lasted from October 1935 to February 1937.
- 3 October 1935 – 19 February 1937, (1 year, 4 months, 2 weeks and 2 days)
1 day ago · Part of the interwar period: Clockwise from top-left: Members of the XI International Brigade at the Battle of Belchite; Granollers after being bombed by the Aviazione Legionaria in 1938; Bombing of an airfield in Spanish Morocco; Republican soldiers at the siege of the Alcázar; Nationalist soldiers operating an anti-aircraft gun; The Lincoln ...
- 17 July 1936 – 1 April 1939, (2 years, 8 months, 2 weeks and 1 day)
- SpainMoroccoWestern SaharaGuineaNorth Sea
4 days ago · Primary Source. Map of Europe, 1918. Annotation. This map illustrates European borders prior to the start of WWI in 1914 with black lines and new states formed by the First World War in red. As the map illustrates, a number of states became independent from Tsarist Russia. What new states were these?
3 days ago · Date accessed: 8 May, 2024. The history of Britain during the two inter-war decades could be characterised by reference to a process by which, while the nation still clung to many of its pre-1914 imperial certainties (which in many ways still defined British identity), society was exposed to, and ‘Britishness’ to a degree undermined by, the ...
3 days ago · The German revolution of 1918–19 was one of the defining episodes of the 20th century. It was not only the outcome of a country’s defeat in the greatest war that humanity had ever witnessed, but also the result of the efforts of important social and political forces that had long strived for democracy, liberty, and social equality.
