Two world wars, decolonisation and the technologies that made the present. These articles cover the century within living memory.
A sea-level plan, yellow fever and bankruptcy stopped the French in 1889. The United States finished a lock canal in 1914 on a treaty signed for Panama by a Frenchman.
· 1914The April 25, 1915 landing was the first major action of Australia's and New Zealand's own forces; 8,709 Australians and 2,779 New Zealanders died there.
· 1915On March 1, 1919, 33 Korean leaders read a declaration of independence at the Taehwagwan and surrendered; students marched from Tapgol Park and Korea rose.
· 1919Signed June 28, 1919, it took Germany's land and army and fixed its liability; Germany called it a Diktat, Keynes Carthaginian, the U.S. Senate refused it.
· 1919Sèvres (1920), signed by the sultan's ministers, partitioned Anatolia; Ankara drove Greece from Smyrna, ended the sultanate and won Lausanne in 1923.
· 1923Moscow cut Turkestan, Bukhara and Khorezm into republics named for nationalities in 1924-25, on Stalin's definition of a nation, and revised them to 1936.
· 1924The Covenant bound members to cut all trade with an aggressor. Against Italy they applied it in part, left oil and Suez open, and offered Rome a slice.
· 1935Britain set June 1948 as the deadline on February 20, 1947; the June 3 plan cut it to August 15; commissions formed June 30 signed the line on August 12.
· 1947
