Review of 1925 events in Europe and abroad
A survey of 1925 highlights including the Locarno Pact progress, League of Nations actions on Mosul and Greece Bulgaria, Moroccan Rif and Syria clashes, Chinese open door accord, debt settlements, Peruvian Chilean plebiscite, German elections and Hindenburg rise, Mussolini dictatorship consolidation, and regional upheavals from Spain to Persia and Latin America. It notes diplomatic efforts, treaties, and political shifts shaping postwar order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rhineland
Coolidge
Washington
Europe
France
League of Nations
League
United States
Soviet Russia
Geneva
Raoul Dandurand
Canada
Great Britain
Mosul
Turkey
World Court
Vilayet
Irak
Britain
Council of the
Greece
Bulgaria
League Council
Abd-elkrim
Riff
Morocco
Rif
Alhucemas Bay
Krim
Shanghai
China
Peking
American Debt Commission
Briand
Domestic affairs and political shifts of the Coolidge era
A detailed summary of the 1920s American political scene notes the January electors' vote for Coolidge Dawes and their March inauguration. It covers congressional appropriations, postal raises, cabinet reshuffles, Senate battles over nominations, and White House staff changes. It highlights Prohibition enforcement, notable trials, and major disasters across the year.
Locarno treaties crown 1925 in Europe peace hoped
Edward W. Pickard surveys 1925 highlighting Locarno as the year’s high point. He notes Germany’s return to the world stage, potential Soviet rapprochement, and the rise of Islamist challenges in North Africa and the Middle East. He also covers China’s civil strife, U.S. prosperity, tax reform talks, Prohibition enforcement, and aviation debates following the Shenandoah disaster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward W. Pickard
Western Europe
League of Nations
Germany
Family of Nations
Soviet Russia
Locarno
Austen Chamberlain
Aristide Briand
Hans Luther
Bert Stresemann
France
Spain
Abd-el Krim
Syria
Turkey
Mosul
Great Britain
Egypt
China
Peking
United States
Army
Navy
Cole William Mitchell
Mlrtia
Department of Aviathem
Uviewadl
Locarno Treaties Set Peacefront Across Europe
Prompted by Britain, Germany invited talks leading to Locarno agreements signed December 1 in London. Foremost security pact binds France Germany and Belgium to boundary respect and non aggression. Britain Italy guarantee frontiers. disputes to conciliation, permanent court, or League council. Arbitration pacts with Poland and Czechoslovakia. Allies plan rapid Cologne evacuation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain
Britind
Luther
Stresemann
France
Germany
Belgium
Italy
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Locarno
London
Permanent Court of International Justice
Council of the League
Cologne
British political scene steadies after 1924 defeat and gold standard move
In postwar Britain the Liberal party regains strength under Earl of Oxford as leader while Labour splits between radicals and conservatives. Government blocks foreign Communists from a Glasgow conference and later tightens residence permits. On April 28 Britain returns to the gold standard, with Australia New Zealand and South Africa following. Canada already on gold, leaving empire currency largely prewar by mid year. France faces separate troubles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Soviet
Russia
Western
Europe
Japan
China
Grafton
Egypt
Great Britain
Lee Stack
Sudan
Ahmad Mirza
Persia
Paris
Riza Khan
Pahlavi
A. C. Millspaugh
Arabia
Ali
Hedjaz
Ibn Saud
Liberal Party
Herbert Asquith
Earl of
Oxford
Lloyd George
Labor Party
Baldwin
Laborites
Communist Party
Glasgow
British Empire
Australia
New Zealand
Union of South Africa
Canada
France
Labor Strikes and Legal Battles Shape Year in Review
A single major strike marred the year as anthracite miners pressed for higher wages and union check-offs, while stockpiled coal and substitutes lessened consumer impact. President Coolidge urged Congress to empower federal intervention. The AFL met in Atlantic City, rejecting cooperation with Soviet unions and re-electing Green. The Supreme Court invalidated compulsory arbitration in Kansas and later struck down Arizona's women’s wage law. Courts cleared International Harvester of trust charges and Jardine dropped merger actions. Chicag o Board of Trade price swings drew farmer ire leading to tighter anti manipulation rules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Coolidge
Congress
Secretaries of Commerce and Labor
American Federation of Labor
Atlantic City
Green
Supreme Court of the
Kansas Industrial Court
Arizona
Federal Court of Equity
International Harvester Company of Trust
Jardine
Armour and Morris
Chicago Board of Trade
Jarding
Year of Disasters Cast Dark Shadow on Nations
A look back at 1916 disasters recalls major losses in the United States and abroad. The Shenandoah airship struck a fatal blow over Ohio on September 3, killing Commander Zachary Lansdowne and 18 crew. On September 24 the submarine S-51 was rammed off Rhode Island, sinking with 83 men. February brought a Dortmund mine explosion that killed 188, and a Kansas City stock pavilion fire caused extensive damage and losses. March saw a devastating central China earthquake with thousands dead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Ohio
Middle West
Zachary Lansdowne
Navy
Rhode Island
Dortmund
Germany
Kansas City
Wie
Sullivan
Sndkillea Fe
China
Notable Deaths of the Year by Month and Name List
The year’s death toll reads like a roll of prominent figures. Archbishops, authors, publishers, soldiers, and politicians from around the world are named January through December, including Henry Moeller Guernsey Moore George Bellows Norman Bridge and many more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Moeller
Cincinnati
Guernsey Moore
George Bellows
Norman Bridge
Chicago
Harry Furniss
D. G. Reid
John ©. Eastman
Chicago Journal
Field Marshal
Baron Grenfell
George W. Cable
John Lane
Julius Fleischmann
Thomas W. Lawson
Boston
Clio Bracken
Fred W. Upham
M. H. DeYoung
San Francisco Chronicle
Marion Burton
University of Michigan
James Lane Allen
Hijalmar Branting
Sweden
Medill McCormick
U. S
Illinois
Friedrich Ebert
Germany
William A. Clark
W. A. Quayle
Kansas
Sun Yat-Sen
Marquis Curzon
Kedleston
Lord Rawlinson
India
Jean de Reszke
Archbishop Christie
Oregon
Elwood Haynes
First Automobile
John S. Sargent
Ralph D Paine
G. S. Sanderson
United States Senate
Viscount Leverhulme
H. A. Bandholtz
Herbert Quick
W. F Massey
New Zealand
Amy Lowell
Charlies Mangin
Verdun
Viscount Milner
Henry Rider Haggard
Nelson A. Miles
S. P. Spencer
Missouri
Marshal French
Ypres
Ernest D. W. Burton
University of Chicago
Louis Falk
Thomas R. Marshall
Camille Flammarion
Pierre Louys
Vance Thompson
Warren §. Stone
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Julius Krartschnitt
Edmund J. James
M. la Follette
United States
Wisconsin
F Ladd
North Dakota
D. W. Tryon
G. W Willliams
Begin
Quebec
A. J. Ochsner
William Jennings Bryan
Helen H Gardner
Edger A. Bancroft
Japan
George Gray
Delaware
John Temple Graves
Georgia
Victor F Lawson
Chicago News
George Goldie
Nigeria
E. J. Stettinius
New York
Reginald C. Vanderbilt
Rene Vivianl
Paul Bartlett
A. C. Bedford
Standard Oil
James Deering
Ada Lewis
Leon Bourgeois
Christy Mathewson
James B. Duke
M. Ralston
Indiana
Eugene Sandow
Isaac Sherwood
Ohio
Frederick Burgess
Long Island
HE. M. Parker
New Hampshire
H. J. Waters
Job Harriman
M. E. Ailes
Washington
Felix Agnus
Baltimore American
P. A. Lannon
Salt Lake City
Khal Dinh
Annam
Eldridge G. Snow
Siam
Andrew Fletcher
American Locomotive Company
A. F. Nightingale
F. A. Parker
Ladislas Reymont
H. Moore
P. §. Hill
American Tobacco Company
William Wilkinson
Wail
John BR. Booth
Canaan
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Herriot
Paul Painleve
Joseph Caillaux
Caillaux
Painleve
Louis Loucheur
Paul Doumer
Damascus
Lebanon
Reichstag
Dawes
von Hindenburg
German Empire
Benito Mussolini
Aventine
Fascismo
Mussolini
Primo de Rivera
Portugal
Skrynski
Pangalos
National Assembly
Nejd
Thn
Mecca
Jeddah
Amundsen
North Pole
Spitzbergen
Pole
Latin America
Chile
Alessandri
Emiliano Figueroa
Solarzano
Nicaragua
Barahona
Honduras
Bolivia
Jose Villaneuva
Saavedra
Senate
Calvin Coolidge
Charles Gates Dawes
McKenna
Supreme Court
Harlan F. Stone
Charles B. Warren
Michigan
Warren
John G. Sargent
Hughes
Frank B. Kellogg
Weeks
Dwight F. Davis
Davis
Col
Hanford MacNider
American Legion
William M. Jardine
C. Bascom Slemp
Everett Sanders
Swampscott
Mass
St. Paul
Minn
Omaha
American Farm Bureau Federation
Sixty-ninth Congress
Nicholas Longworth
Rogers
Massachusetts
Kahn
California
Norton
New Jersey
House
Ways and Means Committee
Robert M. LaFollette, Jr
Seader
Lady
Gerald P. Nye
la Follette
Nye
Ralston
A. R. Robinson
Spencer
George H. Williams
al Smith
Tammany
Jimmy” Walker
Hearst
Hylan Tammany
Walker
F. D. Waterman
William Mitchell
Army Air Service
War Department
Air Service
Mitchell
Andrews
Dayton
Tenn
Clarence Darrow
Charlies Darwin
Scopes
Bryce
Tinois
Indianas
Tennessee
Alabama
North Carolina
Sturgis
Santa Barbara
Cal
Newport
B. L
Corea
Memphis
New Orleans
Florida
Birmingham
Ala
Foreign Affairs
Industrial and Labor
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