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Steelworkers go on strike in the US, attempting a major confrontation with industrial management
Walter Gropius becomes director of the newly formed Bauhaus in Weimar
President Woodrow Wilson suffers a severe stroke that renders him largely incapable during the final seventeen months of his presidency
Marcel Duchamp adds a moustache and beard to a postcard of the Mona Lisa, and gives it the subtly offensive French title LHOOQ
In The Economic Consequences of the Peace Maynard Keynes publishes a strong attack on the reparations demanded from Germany
A White army, advancing on Moscow, is stopped about 250 miles from the city
The actors Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin establish United Artists with the director D.W. Griffith
A White army occupies hills overlooking Petrograd before being driven back by Trotsky
Canadian National Railways is formed from two of the country's largest rail systems
The phrase Abstract Expressionism is first used, describing the work of Wassily Kandinsky
Darius Milhaud provides the score for Jean Cocteau's pantomime ballet Le Boeuf sur le toit
John Singer Sargent completes Gassed, a powerful image of one of the particular horrors of the recent war
The prime minister of Poland, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, resigns his post so as to concentrate on his concert career
Boston Red Sox sell their star player, Babe Ruth, to the New York Yankees for $125,000
Sherwood Anderson establishes a reputation with a collection of short stories, Winesburg, Ohio
The Spartacus League transforms itself into the Communist party of Germany
A vast crowd, assembling in Berlin, calls for a revolution and begins to seize public buildings
After ten days of street fighting in Berlin, Spartacus leaders Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg are captured and shot
The delegates to the peace conference in Paris, mainly concerned with the terms to be imposed on Germany, hold their first session
The German assembly meets in Weimar and elects Ebert as president of the new republic
Delegates to the Paris peace conference unanimously establish the League of Nations
German sailors scuttle every one of the fifty warships held by the British in Scapa Flow
The peace treaty with Germany, ending the world war, is signed in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles
The Versailles Treaty declares that Germany must pay reparations for wartime damages, with the precise amount to be decided by May 1921
The peace-makers in Paris assign the Sudetenland, with its 3.5 million German-speaking inhabitants, to the new republic of Czechoslovakia
