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Year(AD)	Days
1920	Foundation of the League of Nations (January 10).
1921	The Irish Free State established with the status of a Dominion like Canada (December 6).
1923	Turkish Republic proclaimed with Kemal Ataturk as its First President.
1924	Lenin died, and power passed into the hands of Stalin in Russia.
1925	Treaty of Locarno (between Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Belgium).
1928	Kellogg Pact (signed Paris by the principal powers of the world for the prevention of war; it had no effect).
1933	Hitler became the Chancellor of Germany.
1935	War between Italy and Abyssinia. Italy annexed Abyssinia (Ethiopia); Plebiscite in Saar
1939	Germany invaded Poland: Outbreak of World War II.
1940	Fall of France after German invasion. Italy entered World War II.
1941	Hitler invades Russia (June 22): Framing of the Atlantic Charter (August 14)  Japan attacked Pearl Harbour (Hawaii Islands) (December 7); USA entered World War II (December 8); China entered World War II (December 10) Air raids by Japan on Rangoon (December 22)
1942	Capture of Singapore by Japanese forces (February 15); Battle of Coral Sea, Japanese fleet suffered heavy losses at the hands of the American fleet (May 3); Battle of Stalingrad (September 19)
1943	Defeat of Germany at Stalingrad (February 8); Battle of the Bismarck Sea, America defeated Japan in a naval battle (March 4); Invasion of Italy by the Allies, Armistice between Italy and the Allies (September 3)
1944	Allied forces landed in Normandy under the supreme command of General Ike (Eisenhowe); Liberation of Paris (August 25).
1945	Execution of Mussolini (April 22); Unconditional surrender of Germany to the Allies (May 7); USA dropped atom bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki of Japan (August 6 and August 9); Unconditional surrender of Japan (August 14); World War II ended (August 14); Foundation of UNO (October 24)