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1919
January
18
The Paris Peace Conference opens
On 18 January 1919, at the French Foreign Ministry on the Quai d'Orsay, President Poincaré opened the peace conference. The defeated and Russia were absent.
31
The Battle of George Square
On 31 January 1919 Glasgow police broke up a rally of strikers seeking a 40-hour week. The sheriff read the Riot Act and called in troops, who came overnight.
June
21
The scuttling of the German fleet at Scapa Flow
On 21 June 1919, on Admiral Ludwig von Reuter's orders, crews scuttled 52 interned German warships at Scapa Flow rather than hand them to the victors.
1922
February
06
The Washington Naval Treaty
On 6 February 1922 the US, Britain, Japan, France and Italy signed a naval treaty in Washington that limited their battleship fleets.
October
11
The Armistice of Mudanya
On 11 October 1922 at Mudanya on the Sea of Marmara, Ankara made an armistice with the Allies. Greece gave up Eastern Thrace and the war with Turkey ended.
November
01
The abolition of the Ottoman sultanate
On 1 November 1922 the Grand National Assembly in Ankara abolished the sultanate. The Ottoman dynasty lost power and Mehmed VI fled aboard a British warship.
1923
July
24
The Treaty of Lausanne
On 24 July 1923 at Lausanne, Turkey made peace with the Allied powers and Greece. The treaty replaced Sèvres and recognised the new Turkish state's sovereignty.
1924
February
01
Britain recognises the USSR
On 1 February 1924 the first Labour government recognised the Soviet Union de jure. Britain was the first victorious great power to break Moscow's isolation.
1926
January
31
The Allied withdrawal from Cologne
On 31 January 1926 the last British soldiers, and with them Belgian and French troops, left Cologne. The first Rhineland occupation zone returned to Germany.
1927
May
20
The Treaty of Jeddah
On 20 May 1927 Britain recognised the full independence of Ibn Saud’s Kingdom of the Hejaz and Nejd. It took the name Saudi Arabia in 1932.
December
14
The Anglo-Iraqi treaty
On 14 December 1927 in London Britain recognised Iraq as independent and promised to back its entry to the League of Nations in 1932. Yet the mandate went on.
1929
April
03
Persia joins the Litvinov Protocol
On 3 April 1929 Persia joined the Litvinov Protocol, renouncing war with the USSR – which in 1941, together with Britain, marched into its territory.
1930
April
22
The London Naval Treaty
On 22 April 1930 five powers signed a naval treaty in London. It limited cruisers, destroyers and submarines, and set off a crisis in Japan.
1933
March
24
“Judea Declares War on Germany”
On 24 March 1933 the Daily Express announced on its front page that “Judea Declares War on Germany”. The boycott headline became fuel for Nazi propaganda.
25
The anti-Nazi boycott
In spring 1933 Jews in the US, Britain and Poland began boycotting German goods. On 25 March Göring demanded that German Jews put a stop to it.
August
25
The Haavara Agreement
In August 1933 Zionists and the Reich Ministry of Economics concluded a transfer agreement that let Jews leaving for Palestine save part of their property.
September
12
Szilard and the chain reaction
On 12 September 1933 in London the Hungarian physicist Leó Szilárd conceived the idea of a nuclear chain reaction, later the basis of work on the atomic bomb.
1934
December
29
Japan renounces the naval treaties
On 29 December 1934 Japan gave the US notice that it was renouncing the Washington Treaty. Fleet limits expired at the end of 1936 and a new arms race began.
1935
June
18
The Anglo-German Naval Agreement
On 18 June 1935 Britain agreed that Germany's navy could reach 35 per cent of British tonnage, setting aside the naval limits of Versailles on its own.
November
14
The British general election of 1935
On 14 November 1935 Baldwin's National Government won the election, pledging loyalty to the League and limited rearmament. It was the last election until 1945.
1936
January
20
The death of George V
King George V died at Sandringham on 20 January 1936. He was succeeded by his eldest son, who reigned as Edward VIII for less than eleven months.
March
25
The Second London Naval Treaty
On 25 March 1936 the US, Britain and France signed the Second London Treaty. Without Japan and Italy, it limited only the size of warships, not of fleets.
December
11
The abdication of Edward VIII
On 11 December 1936 Edward VIII gave up the throne to marry the divorced American Wallis Simpson. His brother Albert became king as George VI.
1937
February
21
The ban on volunteers for Spain
On the night of 20–21 February 1937 a ban on volunteers for Spain, agreed by the Non-Intervention Committee in London, came into force. No one enforced it.
May
28
Neville Chamberlain becomes prime minister
On 28 May 1937 Baldwin resigned and Neville Chamberlain became prime minister, determined to pacify Europe actively through concessions to Germany and Italy.
October
13
The German guarantee for Belgium
On 13 October 1937 the Reich assured Belgium it would not violate its territory unless Belgium took up arms against Germany. In May 1940 it broke its word.