1925
Mussolini eliminates his opponents by establishing a dictatorship by force and intimidation, converting Italy into a one-party corporate state.
1925
Ernst Roehm, after coming into conflict with Hitler over the role of the SA, travels to Bolivia, where he will remain until 1930.
1925 Color, poetry by Countee Cullen and The New Negro, an anthology of poetry edited by Alain Locke are published in New York.
1925
Black physicians are admitted to practice at Harlem Hospital in New York.
1925
Baron Sebottendorff leaves Germany and returns to Turkey. From 1926 to 1928, he acts as honorary Mexican consul in Instanbul (Constantinople). He later travels to the U.S. and Central America, 1929-1931. (Roots)
1925
The Geneva Protocol of 1925, bans poison gas as a means of warfare.
1925
Stalin forces Trotsky to resign as Minister of War.
1925
The silent movie classic Battleship Potemkin, is directed by Sergei Eisenstein, is released in Russia.
1925
Jewish synagogues and schools are looted and the Jewish cemetery is desecrated at Piatra in Romania. (Atlas)
1925
Monsignor Ludwig Kaas is appointed as advisor to Eugenio Pacelli, the Papal Nuncio in Berlin, by Cardinal Bertram. Kaas and Pacelli soon become close friends. (Arthur Wynen; Lewy)
1925
Jean Monnet becomes a partner in the Blair Foreign Corporation, a New York bank that made huge profits during the war.
1925
Joseph Goebbels is appointed Business Manager of the North Rhineland Gau of the Nazi Party. He soon edits several Nazi publications, including the bulletin NS-Briefe (National Socialist Letters).
1925
Ahmed Zogu proclaims Albania a monarchy and rules as King Zog.
1925
Reza Shah Pahlavi begins his rule as the Shah of Iran.
1925 January
The Bavarian government lifts the ban on the old National Socialist party. Hitler is pardoned but is forbidden to make public speeches.
1925 January
Stalin begins a plan to ease Grigory Zinovev and Lev Kamenev out of power and gain control for himself.
1925 January 2
Rudolf Hess is released from Landsberg prison. (Missing Years)
1925 February 27
Hitler makes his first speech "in private" at the Burgerbrau Keller in Munich. After effectively reviving the NSDAP, he quickly takes control.
1925 February 28
Friedrich Ebert, first President of the German Republic, dies.
1925 March 26
Count Hochberg gives 500 gold marks to the Order of the New Templars (ONT) for the purchase of the small ancient earthwork of Wickeloh near Gross-Oesingen in Lower Saxony. (Roots)
1925 March 29
Election of Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg as President of Germany.
1925 March 30
Rudolf Steiner dies. The Anthroposophy movement, which has been called a Christianized version of Theosophy, continues to flourish even after his death.
1925 April 18
The first world women's exposition opens in Chicago.
1925 April 26
Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg becomes president of Germany.
1925 May 5
Dr. Karl Haushofer founds the Deutsche Akademie. Rudof Hess becomes an assistant on his staff and a close friend of Haushofer's son, Albrecht. Hess later abandons the idea of obtaining a doctorate. (Missing Years)
