How Did The League Of Nations Gain Power In The 1920s

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League of Nations Hold the First Meeting in Geneva, Switzerland (1920)

On January 10, 1920 the League of Nations has finally come to be after 42 nations were ratified in the previous year. The League of Nations is targeted towards keeping international peace after World War 1 and tried to prevent future international disputes. The League of Nations would later turn into the United Nations in the year 1946.

Mussolini Marches on Rome (1922)

Mussolini’s ideas of fascism have begun to spread throughout Europe and his efforts have grown stronger. He has demanded that a fascist government should be formed in Italy to restore order for the Italian people. On October 29, 1922 King Victor Emmanuel II invited Mussolini to come and take power
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He created the first televised pictures of physical objects in motion. He also televised the first human face and the first moving object image at the Royal Institution in London. The greatest broadcasting milestone he made however, was the trans-atlantic transmission of the image of a human face in 1928.

First Assassination Attempt on Mussolini (1926)
On April 7, 1926 Mussolini made a speech in Rome to the International Congress of Surgeons. After the speech, he walked to his car and a small Irish woman named Violet Gibson fired a revolver at his head. The bullet nearly missed Mussolini’s head and instead passed through part of his nose, leaving burn marks on both of his cheeks. Gibson had a long history of mental illness so instead of being lynched she was simply bought in for questioning and deported back to Britain.

Georges Lemaitre proposes the Big Bang Theory (1927)
In 1927, Lemaitre received his PhD from MIT and formed a theory about the formation of the universe. In the theory he states that the expanding universe was the same in all directions but it was not static. He did not have any evidence to prove his theory so scientists ignored it. Another scientist named Aleksandr Friedmann had come to the same conclusion a few years before Lemaitre. Later on, Lemaitre was able to use Edwin Hubble’s discovery of the speeds of galaxies as evidence for his