League of Nations convenes
January 10, 1920
Woodrow Wilson's brainchild took its first breath in Geneva, a parliament of nations meant to make war impossible through talk. The United States, whose president had dreamed it up, refused to join. Without American muscle the League became a well-dressed debating society. It would fail its first real test in Manchuria.
In context
Also in 1920 (6 other events on record)
- American women win the vote · North America · Politics
- Greco-Turkish War rages in Anatolia · Middle East · War
- American Prohibition begins · North America · Culture
- First commercial radio broadcast · North America · Technology
- Prohibition bootleggers fund jazz clubs · North America · Culture
- F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes This Side of Paradise · North America · Culture
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