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| 1918 |
| | | Marie Stopes, a committed advocate of birth control, publishes Married Love, a frank discussion of sexual relations | |
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| 1918 May |
| | | Women are enlisted in Britain's air force, in the newly formed WRAF (Women's Royal Air Force) | |
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| 1918 |
| | | Russia's peasants, victims of White and Red Terror, suffer atrocities from both sides in the civil war | |
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| 1918 August |
| | | A world-wide pandemic of influenza breaks out, and within the space of a year kills 30 million people | |
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| 1914-1918 |
| | | Approximately 7 million civilians are calculated to have died as a direct result of the four years of world war | |
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| 1919 |
| | | Employers' refusal to allow collective bargaining prompts a general strike in Winnipeg, the largest dispute of its kind in Canada's history | |
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| 1919 |
| | | At least thirty-eight people are killed in a race riot in Chicago | |
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| 1919 |
| | | Steelworkers go on strike in the US, attempting a major confrontation with industrial management | |
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| 1920 |
| | | Prohibition comes into effect in the USA, three months after the Volstead Act has provided guidelines for enforcement | |
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| 1920 |
| | | The US steel strike collapses after four months, with nothing achieved | |
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