The Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and…

The US deploys naval and other forces in China during the nationalist revolt that begins in 1922.

Communist Russia supports Sun Yat-sen’s Kuomintang (KMT) Nationalists as the best vehicle to crush the warlords and pave the way for socialism.

The Chinese Communists order their members to join the KMT as individuals.

Kuwait, in a disagreement over payment of customs duties to ibn Sa'ud's regime, experiences border raids and a Sa'udi blockade.

In 1922, the exasperated British High Commissioner takes a red pencil and draws a line on a map, thereby fixing the boundaries between the Saudi realm and that of the Emir of Kuwait.

He also delineates two "neutral zones" along ibn Sa'ud's borders, one shared with Kuwait, the other with Iraq-termed "neutral" in both cases because the Bedouin would be able to pass back and forth to graze their flocks and because they would be jointly administered. (Source: Yergin, Daniel: The Prize; the Quest for Oil, Money & Power (Simon & Schuster, New York, 1991))

The fact of Saudi hegemony in Arabia has obviated all claim to former Arabian thrones, so the departing British invent two in the north, placing Faysal and 'Abd Allah, the sons of Sharif Husayn of Mecca, king of the Hejaz, on the thrones of Iraq and Transjordan, respectively.

These territories, together with the Hejaz, serve as a formidable British-protected cordon around the northern and western borders of the Wahhabi state.

Inevitably, frequent border incidents occur.

In 1921-1922, the Ikhwan conduct border raids against the two Hashemite kingdoms.

Stamboliyski's new pacifist policies have alarmed Bulgaria’s remaining strong nationalist elements, led by a large Macedonian group in Sofia.

Alienated also are the old political leaders, the Military League (composed of active and reserve officers), and Tsar Boris' court.

Bulgaria’s rightist parties, silent since the war but influenced by the successes of Benito Mussolini's fascist organization (known as the Blackshirts) in Italy, have reorganized into a confederation called the National Alliance, (later called Democratic Alliance) and plan to march on Sofia to wrest control of the country.

Stamboliyski's Orange Guard jails the leaders of that group in 1922, temporarily stopping its momentum.

Inflation and industrial exploitation continue.

Many of Stamboliyski's subordinates inflame social tensions by taking very dogmatic positions in favor of peasant rights.

The urban working class, unaided by agrarian reforms, gravitates to the communists or the socialist workers.

On the left, the communists view the Agrarian government as their principal opponent.

Nevertheless, the most dangerous enemies are the Military League and the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO).

IMRO, establishing effective control over the Pirin region, launches terrorist attacks across the border into Yugoslav and Greek Macedonia.

It also assassinates several Agrarian leaders.

In Germany, The International Jew, an anti-Semitic book subsidized by Henry Ford and been translated into German, runs through sixteen editions between 1920 and 1922.