Wilhelm to Tangiers. 1906: Algeciras Conference to mediate the Tangier Crisis between France and Germany. 1910: Creation of French Equatorial Africa (AEF). 1911: Agadir Crisis . 1911: Chinese Revolution. 1912: France establish a full protectorate over Morocco. 1912–1913: Italo-Turkish War (Tripolitania and Cyrenaica are transferred from the Ottoman Empire to Italy). 1914–1918: World War I. 1916: May 16 Sykes-Picot Agreement. 1916–1918: Arab Revolt initiated by Hussein bin Ali and Emir Faisal. 1918: Woodrow Wilson's January 9 speech on the Fourteen Points. Interwar period 1919: Foundation of the League of Nations at the Paris Peace Conference and creation of the League of Nations Mandates (Iraq and Palestine — including Transjordan — are passed to Great Britain's control, Lebanon and Syria to France; the Cameroons and Togoland are split between the UK and France; Ruanda-Urundi goes to Belgium and Tanganyika to the UK; Nauru and New Guinea to Australia; the remainder of German New Guinea to Japan as the South Seas Mandate; Samoa to New Zealand and South West Africa to South Africa). 1919: Third Anglo-Afghan War. 1919: Anti-imperialist Non-Cooperation Movement led by Mahatma Gandhi. 1920: San Remo conference in April. 1920: Treaty of Sèvres on August 10 between the Triple Entente (UK, France and Russia) and the Ottoman Empire; Mustafa Kemal leads the Turkish War of Independence leading to the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne. 1922: Creation of the Soviet Union. 1923: Proclamation of the Republic of Turkey by Mustafa Kemal on October 29. 1924: British Empire Exhibition. 1925: Foundation of the Algerian Star of North Africa by Messali Hadj . 1921–1926: Rif War in Morocco, led by Abd el-Krim. 1927: May 19 Treaty of Jeddah accords independence to Saudi Arabia led by King Abdul Aziz. 1927–1928: Publication of André Gide's Voyage au Congo (Travels in the Congo). 1931: Paris Colonial Exposition. 1931: Dominions of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and South Africa gain independence from Britain. 1932: Independence of Iraq. 1930: Portuguese Colonial Act. 1933: Publication of Gilberto Freyre's Casa-Grande & Senzala ("The Great House and the Slave Quarters" - 1933). 1935: Aimé Césaire coins the word Négritude. 1936: Franco-Syrian Treaty of Independence (never ratified by France). 1936–1939: Great Arab Revolt in the British Mandate of Palestine. 1935–36: Second Italo-Abyssinian War. World War II, and Cold War until the Détente World War II (1939-1945). 1941: Atlantic charter Endorsed by all the Allies of World War II; Calls for self-determination. 1941: Foundation of