First World War.com - Primary Documents

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Photograph of the U.S. 19th Amendment Primary Documents - Post-1919
Updated - Saturday, 29 May, 2004

This page of the Primary Documents section of the website collects together archive source documents originating in the years following 1919.

Documents listed here include the various U.S. peace treaties with the post-war governments of Austria, Hungary and Germany. Also available is the text of the U.S. 19th Amendment which saw American women's right to vote ratified by Congress.

The list presented below - with each entry accompanied by a brief summary of its significance - is sorted by date, with earlier documents listed first.

	U.S. 19th Amendment (click here) 1920 - Women's right to vote ratified by Congress
	President Harding's Inauguration Address (click here) 1921 - Address given by Harding at start of his term
	U.S. Peace Treaty with Austria (click here) 1921 - Official end of hostilities against Austria
	U.S. Peace Treaty with Germany (click here) 1921 - Official end of hostilities against Germany
	U.S. Peace Treaty with Hungary (click here) 1921 - Official end of hostilities against Hungary
	Ludendorff on Meuse-Argonne Offensive (click here) 1922 - German commander's post-war view of offensive
	Geneva Protocol (click here) 1925 - Re-affirmed non-use of chemical weapons

"Beachy Bill" was the name given to one of the Turkish guns which regularly shelled Anzac Cove.