Racial Equality Proposal rejected
1919 · Event
Japan's proposed racial-equality clause for the League of Nations Covenant wins a majority but is blocked by Wilson; resentment lingers in Tokyo.
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- Edo period (1603)
- Perry Expedition to Japan (1853)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543)
- Battle of Sekigahara (1600)
- VJ Day / surrender of Japan (1945)
- Kamakura shogunate established (1192)
- Oda Nobunaga (1534)
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi unifies Japan (1590)
Around 1919
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- Great Depression (1929)
- Spanish flu pandemic (1918)
- Mexican Revolution (1910)
- Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910)
- Irish revolutionary period (1912)
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- World War I (1914)
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Pop music: the 1920s (1920)