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An unknown serviceman was buried in the nave of Westminster Abbey as a symbol of all the war dead with no known grave; France buried its own unknown soldier under the Arc de Triomphe.
The Ottoman government accepted the loss of most of its territory, but the treaty was never ratified and was replaced by the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923.
Hungary lost about two-thirds of its pre-war territory and roughly 60 per cent of its population to neighbouring states; the treaty came into force in July 1921.
The coup collapsed after four days in the face of a general strike and the refusal of civil servants to cooperate; the Weimar Republic survived.
Decisive Polish victory; the Soviet Western Front was destroyed and the war ended with the Peace of Riga in March 1921.
The Red Army stormed the fortress across the ice and crushed the revolt; the Bolsheviks introduced the New Economic Policy and banned party factions the same month.
The Greek, Armenian and European quarters of Smyrna were destroyed and their surviving Christian inhabitants fled or were evacuated by sea.
Victory for the pro-Treaty Irish Free State government; anti-Treaty forces were ordered to dump their arms in May 1923.
King Victor Emmanuel III refused to declare martial law and appointed Mussolini prime minister, creating the first fascist-led government.
The Allies recognised the sovereignty and borders of the new Turkish state, abolished the capitulations and accepted the compulsory Greek-Turkish population exchange.
The coup collapsed under police fire at the Feldherrnhalle; Hitler was tried for treason and imprisoned, and the Nazi Party was temporarily banned.
The paper mark collapsed completely; the Rentenmark introduced in November 1923 stabilised the currency, followed by the Reichsmark in 1924.
