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In Ireland Sinn Fein set up an Irish Parliament, the Dail Eireann and Eamon De Valera was elected its President. The newly formed Irish Republican Army was too much for the Royal Irish Constabulary. Britain formed the notorious Black and Tans from ex-soldiers in support of the Constabulary.

Woodrow Wilson

Thomas Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924)

• Born in Virginia and educated at Princeton
• Became a lawyer
• Went into politics as a Democrat
• Became President of the United States in 1912
• Proposed the League of Nations but could not convince his own Congress that it was in America's interests to join

In January 1921 Lloyd George was the first Prime Minister to use Chequers. The Tudor Mansion had been given to the Nation by Lord Lee of Fareham, it became the Prime Minister's official country residence.

Diary Of The War In Ireland In Early 1921

• January 20th six policemen killed
• January 23rd eight killed in IRA gun battle
• January 28th three policemen murdered by IRA
• February 1st troops torch houses in retribution of death of the three policemen
• February 11th IRA murder Irish police informer
• February 16th eight members of Sinn Fein killed by army
• February 20th former soldier taken from Cork Hospital and murdered by Sinn Fein

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1916	Lloyd George becomes Prime Minister Easter Rising in Ireland
1917	America joins the war Russian Revolution
1918	RAF is formed World War I ends Coupon election is held Rationing introduced
1920	Government of Ireland Act Communist Party of Great Britain is formed The League of Nations is founded
1921	The Irish Free State is formed
1922	Bonar Law Prime Minister Labour Party becomes the formal Opposition Mussolini Prime Minister of Italy
1923	Baldwin becomes Prime Minister
1924	First Labour government Lenin dies
1925	Gold bullion standard is agreed