Search
2211 matches.
South Africa1930Elections
White women gained voting rights in South Africa, marking a significant electoral expansion despite the country's segregationist policies.
Women's suffrage, the right of women to vote in elections, emerged as a transformative movement in the 19th and 20th centuries, marking a critical turning point in the struggle for gender equality. - summary
China1927Wars
The split between Nationalist and Communist forces initiated a two-decade conflict that would reshape East Asia and culminate in Communist victory.
The Chinese Civil War was fought between the Kuomintang-led government of the Republic of China and the forces of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). - summary
United States1927Tech launches
The Jazz Singer's release with synchronized sound marked the death of silent film and transformed cinema into a fully realized audio-visual medium.
A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. - summary
United States1927Festivals
Duke Ellington's breakthrough performances and recordings at the Cotton Club crystallized the Jazz Age and redefined American music's global cultural reach.
The Jazz Age was a period from 1920 to the early 1930s in which jazz music and dance styles gained worldwide popularity. - summary
United States1927Tech launches
The U.S. Congress established federal regulation of radio broadcasting, creating the precedent for spectrum management and the creation of the FCC.
It replaced the Radio Act of 1912, increasing the federal government's regulatory powers over radio communication, with oversight vested in a newly created body, the Federal Radio Commission. - summary
United Kingdom1926Protests
The nine-day General Strike of 1926 mobilized over 1.7 million workers across Britain and marked the peak of interwar labour militancy before a decisive government victory.
A general strike is a strike action in which a substantial proportion of the total labour force in a city, region, or country participates. - summary
United States1925Protests
The trial of John Scopes for teaching evolution in Tennessee crystallized the cultural clash between scientific modernism and religious fundamentalism in 1920s America.
John Thomas Scopes, commonly known as the Scopes trial or Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case from July 10 to July 21, 1925, in which a high school teacher, John T. - summary
Switzerland1925Wars
The Locarno Treaties guaranteed Germany's western borders and promised collective security, temporarily stabilizing European relations and enabling Germany's League of Nations entry.
The Locarno Treaties, known collectively as the Locarno Pact, were seven post–World War I agreements negotiated amongst Germany, France, Great Britain, Belgium, Italy, Poland and Czechoslovakia in late 1925. - summary
Germany1924Elections
The American-brokered reparations plan revived Germany's finances and enabled temporary stability, though it masked structural weaknesses exposed later.
The Dawes Plan temporarily resolved the issue of the reparations that Germany owed to the Allies of World War I. - summary
United Kingdom1924Elections
Britain's 1924 election restored Conservative power under Baldwin and ended the first Labour government, reshaping postwar British party competition.
A general election was held in the United Kingdom on Wednesday 29 October 1924, as a result of the defeat of the Labour minority government, led by Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, in the House of Commons on a motion … - summary
United States1924Elections
Coolidge's landslide victory consolidated Republican dominance in the Jazz Age and reflected voter satisfaction with economic prosperity.
The Republican ticket of incumbent President Calvin Coolidge and former Director of the Bureau of the Budget Charles G. - summary
Turkey1923Revolutions
The Treaty of Lausanne formally dissolved the 600-year Ottoman Empire, redrawing Middle Eastern and Eastern Mediterranean borders and creating the modern Turkish state.
The Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire (1908–1922) was a period of history of the Ottoman Empire beginning with the Young Turk Revolution and ultimately ending with the empire's dissolution and the founding of the mode… - summary
Turkey1922Revolutions
The abolition of the Ottoman Sultanate in 1922 ended six centuries of dynastic rule and formally completed the empire's transformation into a secular nation-state.
The Ottoman Empire, historically also known as the Turkish Empire, was a state that spanned much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th century to the early 20th century, centred in modern-day … - summary
United Kingdom1922Tech launches
The British Broadcasting Company begins public radio transmission, pioneering mass broadcasting as a regulated public utility and information medium.
BBC Radio is an operational business division and service of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) which has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a royal charter since 1927. - summary
United States1922Wars
The treaty capped naval armaments among major powers, representing the era's most serious disarmament effort before rearmament resumed.
The Washington Naval Treaty, also known as the Five-Power Treaty, was signed during 1922 among the major Allies of World War I, which agreed to prevent an arms race by limiting naval construction. - summary
United States1921Protests
Interior Secretary Albert Fall's secret oil lease agreements sparked the worst executive corruption scandal until Watergate, defining an era of Progressive Era accountability.
The Teapot Dome scandal was a political corruption scandal in the United States involving the administration of President Warren G. - summary
Hungary1920Wars
The treaty dismantled the Austro-Hungarian Empire's Hungarian territories, redrawing Central Europe and generating grievances that destabilized the interwar era.
The Treaty of Trianon, often referred to in Hungary as the Peace Dictate of Trianon or Dictate of Trianon, was prepared at the Paris Peace Conference. - summary
Germany1919Elections
Germany's inaugural democratic election following imperial collapse established the Weimar Republic and represented a pivotal moment in Central European political transformation.
The First General Army was a general army of the Imperial Japanese Army, established for the defense of eastern and northern Honshū during the final stage of the Pacific War. - summary
Ireland1919Wars
The guerrilla conflict between Irish republicans and British forces catalyzed the partition of Ireland and created two independent states.
The Irish War of Independence, also known as the Anglo-Irish War, was a guerrilla war fought in Ireland from 1919 to 1921 between the Irish Republican Army and British forces: the British Army, along with the quasi-mi… - summary
Germany1919Elections
Germany granted women the right to vote following the collapse of the Kaiser's regime, making it among the first major European powers to enfranchise women and reshaping Weimar electoral politics.
The roles of German women have changed throughout history, as the culture and society in which they lived had undergone various transformations. - summary