Treaty of Versailles
Peace terms that help sow the Second World War
Signed in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, the treaty formally ended the First World War with Germany. Germany lost its colonies and some territory, had its army limited and was made to pay reparations, a humiliation that helped bring on the Second World War.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Whole world
- 1914–1918 World War I — 5 years earlier
- 1918–1920 Spanish flu pandemic — 1 year earlier
- 1920 League of Nations founded — 1 year later
- 1939–1945 World War II — 20 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1917 October Revolution — 2 years earlier
- 1917–1922 Russian Civil War — 2 years earlier
- 1929–1933 Collectivization in the Soviet Union — 10 years later
- 1936–1938 Great Purge — 17 years later
- 1941–1944 Siege of Leningrad — 22 years later
Middle East
- 1908 Oil struck at Masjed Soleyman — 11 years earlier
- 1908 Young Turk Revolution — 11 years earlier
- 1915 Armenian genocide — 4 years earlier
- 1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement — 3 years earlier
- 1916–1918 The Arab Revolt — 3 years earlier
Africa
- 1897 The British sack Benin City — 22 years earlier
- 1904–1908 The Herero and Nama genocide — 15 years earlier
- 1922 Discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb — 3 years later
- 1935–1937 Italy invades Ethiopia — 16 years later
Asia
- 1896–1898 Philippine Revolution — 23 years earlier
- 1911–1912 Xinhai Revolution — 8 years earlier
- 1923 Great Kantō earthquake — 4 years later
- 1931 China floods — 12 years later
- 1934–1935 Long March — 15 years later
Americas
- 1910–1920 Mexican Revolution — 9 years earlier
- 1913 Ford's moving assembly line — 6 years earlier
- 1914 Opening of the Panama Canal — 5 years earlier
- 1914 Death of Martha, the last passenger pigeon — 5 years earlier
- 1929 Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression — 10 years later
Oceania
- 1911 Amundsen reaches the South Pole — 8 years earlier
- 1912 The death of Scott's polar party — 7 years earlier
- 1936 Death of the last thylacine — 17 years later
- 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor — 22 years later
- 1942 The Battle of Midway — 23 years later
Alive at the time
- Thomas Edison (aged 72)
- Nikola Tesla (aged 63)
- Marie Curie (aged 52)
- Mahatma Gandhi (aged 50)
- Vladimir Lenin (aged 49)
- Ernest Rutherford (aged 48)
- Winston Churchill (aged 45)
- Joseph Stalin (aged 41)
- Albert Einstein (aged 40)
- Pablo Picasso (aged 38)