Chapter 25 Review: Important Events
1913–1925 | Suffrage for women expands in much of Europe |
1914 | August: World War I begins |
1916 | Irish nationalists stage Easter Uprising against British rule |
1917 | March: Revolution in Russia overturns tsarist autocracy |
April: United States enters World War I | |
November: Bolshevik Revolution in Russia | |
1918 | November: Armistice ends fighting of World War I; revolutionary turmoil throughout Germany; kaiser abdicates |
1918–1922 | Civil war in Russia |
1919 | Weimar Republic is established |
1919–1920 | Paris Peace Conference redraws map of Europe |
1922 | Ireland gains independence; Fascists march on Rome; Mussolini becomes prime minister; Joyce, Ulysses; Hitler builds Nazi Party |
1924 | Lenin dies; Stalin and Trotsky contend for power |
1924–1929 | Period of general economic prosperity and stability |
1929 | October: Stock market crash in United States |
Consider three events: Joyce, Ulysses (1922), Fascists march on Rome (1922), and Period of general economic prosperity and stability (1924–1929). How do these events illustrate the complexities of postwar life?