Chronology of Western Colonialism - Interwar Period

Interwar Period

  • 1919: Foundation of the League of Nations at the Paris Peace Conference and creation of the League of Nations Mandates (Iraq and Palestine — including Transjordan — are passed to Great Britain's control, Lebanon and Syria to France; the Cameroons and Togoland are split between the UK and France; Ruanda-Urundi goes to Belgium and Tanganyika to the UK; Nauru and New Guinea to Australia; the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands and the South Pacific Mandate to Japan; Samoa to New Zealand and South West Africa to South Africa)
  • 1919: Third Anglo-Afghan War
  • 1919: Non-Cooperation Movement led by Mahatma Gandhi
  • 1920: San Remo conference in April
  • 1920: Treaty of Sèvres on August 10 between the Triple Entente (UK, France and Russia) and the Ottoman Empire; Mustafa Kemal leads the Turkish War of Independence leading to the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne
  • 1922: Creation of the Soviet Union
  • 1923: Proclamation of the Republic of Turkey by Mustafa Kemal on October 29
  • 1924: British Empire Exhibition
  • 1925: Foundation of the Algerian Star of North Africa by Messali Hadj
  • 1921-1926: Rif War in Morocco, led by Abd el-Krim
  • 1927: May 19 Treaty of Jedda accords independence to Saudi Arabia led by king Abdul Aziz
  • 1927-1928: Publication of André Gide's Travels to Congo.
  • 1931: Paris Colonial Exposition
  • 1931: South Africa gains independence from Britain
  • 1932: Independence of Iraq
  • 1930: Portuguese Colonial Act
  • 1933: Publication of Gilberto Freyre's Casa-Grande & Senzala ("The Great House and the Slave Quarters" - 1933 )
  • 1934-1935: Long March by the Chinese Communist Army
  • 1935: Aimé Césaire coins the word Négritude
  • 1936: Franco-Syrian Treaty of Independence (never ratified by France)
  • 1936-1939: Great Arab Revolt in the British Mandate of Palestine
  • 1935-36: Second Italo-Abyssinian War
  • 1937-45: Second Sino-Japanese War

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