Peace Treaty row and postwar turmoil headline 1919
Turmoil across Europe and the United States as the 1919 peace process unfolded. The Versailles treaty neared completion amid German opposition, Italy and Jugoslav tensions, and Russia, Hungary, Poland, and Ireland facing upheaval. In the US, prohibition, suffrage, strikes, and political battles framed a tense postwar era.
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Paris
United States Senate
League of Nations
Europe
Austria-Hungary
Anatria
Hungary
Poland
Czech
Jugoslav
Germany
Russia
Wirth
United States
Exsted
Executive Council
Wilson
Congress
Washington
Boston
Italy
Adriatic
Fiume
Council of Ten
Lloyd George
Clemenceau
Orlando
Japan
Council of Four
Kian-Chau
China
Great Britain
Watert
Versailles
France
Ebert
Council of Five
Brockdorff-Rantzau
Shantung
Notable deaths of 1919 across world fields and nations
A necrology lists prominent figures who died in 1919 including Theodore Roosevelt at Oyster Bay on January 6. It names leaders, scholars, artists, and public figures such as Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Henry Clay Frick, Adelina Patti, Oscar Hammerstein, Anna Howard Shaw, and Louis Botha among others with dates from January to December.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Oyster Bay
George F. von Hertling
J. Franklin Bell
Charlies Wyndham
Nathaniel C. Goodwin
Wilfried Laurier
Canada
William P. Borland
Congress
Missouri
Mary Walker
George F. Edmunds
United States
Vermont
Amelia E. Barr
William Crookes
Minnesota
Ernest Lister
Washington
Anna Howard Shaw
National Woman's Suffrage Association
Edward John Poynter
The
Royal Academy
Oscar Hammerstein
Andrew Carnegie
Louis Botha
Union of South Africa
Baron Charles William Beresford
John Mitchell
Theodore P. Shonts
Interborough Rapid Transit Company of
New York
Isthmian Canal Commission
Adelina Patti
William Waldorf Astor
Alfred T. Ringling
Circus
Mra
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Col
J. D. Bell
Thomas 8. Martin
Virginia
Henry Clay Frick
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Donald F. Biggs
Peace Congress
Supreme War Council
Lansing
Marshal Foch
Terutary
League of Nations Commission
League of Ities
Anthe
Senate
Lodge
West
White House
League
Hitchcock
Foreign Affairs
Lenin
Trotzky
Roumania
Berlin
Carl Liebknecht
Spartacans
Rosa Luxemburg
Weimar
German Republic
Ignace Jan Paderewski
Pilsudski
M. Demoski
Korea
Egypt
Churchill
Vienna
Doctor Renner
Count Karoly
Francesco Nitti
Finance
Scheidemann
Gustav Adolph Bauer
Bela Kun
Ireland
Sinn Fein
Viscount French
Yudenitch
Petrograd
Gabriele d'Annunzio
Bulgaria
Thrace
Omsk
Kolchak
D’annunzio
Zara
Dalmatia
State Department
Gregory
A. Mitchell Palmer
Walker
House
House of Representatives
Gillett
Massachusetts
Cummins
Town
Chicago
General Pershing
Cardinal Mercier
Belgium
Albert
Elizabeth
Prince of Wales
United States Supreme Court
Labor and Industrial
War Labor Board
South America
Argentina
Peru
Seattle
Ole Hanson
New England
Building Employers’ Association of Chicago
Department of Justice
Anderson
Indianapolis
Fuel Administration
Mexico
Tampico
United States Army
Carranza
William ©. Jenkins
Puebla
Jenkins
Aeronautics
United States Navy
Halifax
N. S
Trepassay Bay
Newfoundland
Azores
Lisbon
Portugal
Atlantic
Harry G. Hawker
Mackenzie Grieve
John Alcock
Flyer
Arthur W. Brown
Edinburgh
Roland Rholfs
San Francisco
Alexander Pearson
Ross Smith
Australia
England
Port Darwin
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