1919
Jan. 1 - Spartacist League in Germany, Red Scare in America
Jan. 18 - Paris Peace Conference opened in Paris.
Feb. 19 - Clemenceau was shot by anarchist Eugene Cottin.
Mar. 4 - Lenin formed the Comintern to spread radicalism in Europe.
Mar. 21 - Bela Kun seized power in Hungary.
Apr. 25 - Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus School in Weimar, Germany.
May 19 - 66th Congress opened in the U.S., Republicans opposed Wilson's treaty.
June 2 - Mail bombs sent to U.S. leaders.
June 28 - German delegates signed Treaty of Versailles in Hall of Mirrors.
Sept. 9 - Mobs riot in Boston as police began strike.
Sept. 12 - Gabriele d'Annunzio and radical Italians occupied Fiume.
Sep. 25 - Wilson collapsed in Pueblo, Colorado, ill for next 7 months.
Nov. 19 - Senate voted rejected treaty.
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