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1923
 
   
Turkey becomes a republic with Atatürk as president and Ankara as its new capital      
1923
 
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Adolf Hitler, launching a putsch in a Munich beer cellar, announces the birth of a new national government       
1924
 
     
Winston Churchill, accepting the position of chancellor of the exchequer in Baldwin's cabinet, returns to the Conservative party        
1924
 
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Lenin's death is followed by an intense power struggle in the Kremlin between Stalin, Trotsky, Kamenev and Zinoviev       
1924
 
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A general election brings in Britain's first Labour prime minister, Ramsay MacDonald, at the head of a minority government      
1924
 
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James Hertzog's National Party, committed to protecting white privilege, comes to power in South Africa      
1924
 
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The League of Nations grants Belgium a mandate to administer the former Germany colony of Ruanda-Urundi      
1924
 
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The British government takes on the administration of Northern Rhodesia from the British South Africa Company       
1924
 
    
A massive Conservative victory in the UK general election follows publication of the forged Zinoviev letter, and Baldwin returns as prime minister       
1924
 
    
Calvin Coolidge is elected US president in his own right, winning by a wide margin over Democrat John W. Davis