The Treaty of Saint-Germain, designating Austrian boundaries and conditions, takes effect.

9 Aug.

The Treaty of Trianon, defining Hungarian boundaries and conditions, is signed.

10 Aug.

The Treaty of Sevres, stipulating Turkish boundaries and conditions, is signed.

14 Aug.

The Summer Olympics begin in Antwerp, Belgium.

22 Aug.

In Italy 500,000 workers take over more than five hundred factories in protests over economic and political difficulties.

31 Aug.

Wilhelm Wundt, German philosopher and one of the founders of modern psychology, dies at age eighty-eight.

25 Sept.

Twenty-five are killed in anti-Japanese protests in Gensan, Korea.

26 Sept.

After some five thousand attacks on individuals and property result in more than one hundred deaths, the British government orders a curfew in Belfast and other Irish cities.

19 Oct.

John Reed, an American writer who celebrated Russia's Bolshevik Revolution in Ten Days That Shook the World (1919), dies in Moscow at age thirty-three. He is the only American to be buried...