1914-1918

World War One

1919

* Irish War of Independence begins. 1919-21.
* Communist-led insurrection in Hungary establishes Hungarian Socialist 
Republic. Hungarian troops invade Czechoslovakia. Romania intervenes, 
invading Hungary and occupying Budapest to end the six-month-old 
republic.
* Amritsar Massacre in India's Pubjab sets the stage for Indian 
independence decades later.
* Chinese forces occupy Outer Mongolia.
* British forces defeat a Masud insurrection in Waziristan, in northwest 
Pakistan.
* The Russian Civil War begins.
* Lithuanian War of Independence is fought.
* Arabian civil war breaks out.
* Armenains rebel against occupying Turkish forces.

1920

* Russian-Polish war breaks out in April.
* French forces fighting in Syria take Damascus, forcing King Faisal's 
Arab army to flee the country.
* In Mexico, General Alvaro Obregon leads a successful insurrection 
against the government of Venustiano Carranza, who is assassinated.

1921

* Irish War of Independence ends, but is followed in short order by the 
Irish Civil War (1921-22).
* Bolshevik soldiers rebel at Kronstadt naval base near St. Petersburg, 
but are quickly suppressed.
* Six-year Rif War begins in Morocco.
* Greek-Turkish War intensifies when Turkish forces push Greek soldiers 
out of myrna, granted them by the Treaty of Sevres.
* Reza Shah Pahlevi seizes power in Persia.
* Soviet and Mongolian forces invade Mongolia.
* Panama-Costa Rica border war is contained.
* Ex-emperor Charles fails in second attempt to regain the throne of 
Hungary.

1922

* Japanese forces withdraw from Siberia, ending the Russian Civil War.
* Greek army is expelled from Turkey.
* British forces defeat an insurrection in occupied Kurdistan.

1923

* In Bavaria, Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party fails in an attempted coup - the 
infamous Beer Hall Putsch.
* French and British occupy Germany's Ruhr Valley.
* Military coup in Spain gives that country a new prime minister.
* Guerrilla insurrection rips through Bulgaria.
* In Libya, Italian forces begin eight-year campain to exterminate the 
Senussi people. More than 50,000 natives die.

1924

* Ibn Saud's forces take Mecca in Arabian Civil War.
* Virtual civil war ends in Brazil.
* Military coup occurs in Chile.

1925

* Kurdish forces rebel unsuccessfully in Turkey after promised 
independence vanishes.
* Druze insurrection in southern Syria meets with initial success.
* British troops kill 62 Chinese military cadets and civilian 
demonstrators in Shanghai.
* Liberals fight Conservatives in Nicaragua's civil war. American forces 
intervene on the side of the Conservatives.

1926

* Army insurrection ends first Portuguese republic.
* Polish general Josef Pilsudski takes power in a military coup.
* French and Spanish forces put an end to Morocco's Rif War.
* In China, Kuomintang and Communist forces join to capture Hankow, 
Nanking and Shanghai from warlords, the first stage in the reunification 
of the country.
* A Catholic insurrection in Mexico follows government restrictions on 
Roman Catholics. U.S. troops occupy Nicaragua.

1927

* French forces defeat Druze rebels in Syria.
* Chinese Civil War, which does not end until 1949, begins with the 
Shanghai Massacre.

1928

* Joseph Stalin's purges begin in the Soviet Union.
* Haile Selassie takes power by coup in Ethiopia.

1929

* Arab-Jewish riots grip Palestine in a dispute over Jerusalem's Wailing 
Wall.
* Soviet forces invade Manchuria.
* Afghanistan is split by civil war.
* General Gonzalo Escobar leads another short-lived, failed rebellion in 
Mexico.

1930

* Kurdish independence forces fail in two attempts to overthrow 
governments in Iraq and Iran.
* Dervish rebellion in Turkey is quelled by government forces led by 
Mustapha Kemal.
* Another military coup occurs in Brazil.

1931

* Republican forces depose Spanish King Alfonso XIII.
* Greece and Bulgaria clash over borders.
* Italian forces end war with the Senussi in Libya.
* Japanese forces seize Manchuria.

1932

* Kurdish independence fighters renew fight for independence, but are 
smashed by Iraqi troops and British warplanes.
* Bolivia and Paraguay fight over the Chaco region.
* Brazilian city of Sao Paulo rebels against the national dictatorship, 
but rises and falls alone.

1933

* The Chinese Civil War continues
* Japanese forces invade Jehol in Inner Mongolia, claiming it as part of 
Manchuria.
* Anarchists rebel in Barcelona and a number of other Spanish cities, 
but are beated back.

1934

* Stalin's

1967

successful military coup in Greece and go on to hold power for seven 
years.
* Cyprus is partitioned between the warring Greek and Turkish 
populations.
* Stunning Israeli successes in the Third Arab-Israeli War lead to the 
conflict being renmaed the Six-Day War - the length of time it takes 
Israel to defeat armed forces from Egypt, Jordan and Syria.
* The Nigeria-Biafra Civil War, one of hte bloodiest on the African 
continent, begins; millions - most of them children and other 
noncombatants - would die before the restoration of peace in 1970.

1968

* Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia to put an end to the short-lived 
Prague Spring reforms of Alexander Dubcek.
* Germany's Baader-Meinhof Group begins a five-year series of bombings, 
murders and robberies in West Germany.
* In Africa, fighting continues in Nigeria-Biafra, Yemen, Chad, Muscat 
and Oman, and in Mali.
* North Korean forces seize the USS Pueblo and its 83-man crew.