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Steel production, a good indication of the status of heavy industry, was more than cut in half, and both agriculture and industry fell into serious decline after the war. The value of the franc fell by about 50 percent during 1919, the first year of peace. To pay off bondholders, France was forced to borrow at extremely high short-term rates.
English literature - WWI, Interwar, Poetry: The impact of World War I upon the Anglo-American Modernists has been noted. In addition the war brought a variety of responses from the more-traditionalist writers, predominantly poets, who saw action. Rupert Brooke caught the idealism of the opening months of the war (and died in service); Siegfried Sassoon and Ivor Gurney caught the mounting anger ...
France - Interwar, Politics, Economy: Frenchmen concentrated much of their energy during the early 1920s on recovering from the war. The government undertook a vast program of reconstructing the devastated areas and had largely completed that task by 1925. To compensate for manpower losses, immigration barriers were lowered, and two million foreign workers flooded into the country. Underlying ...
Interwar Period. It's tempting to lump the First and Second World Wars together into 30 years of mayhem. This argument fails to recognize the twenty-year period from 1919 to 1939, called the interwar period: a brief period of optimism and prosperity before the economic crisis and the rise of fascism.
Sep 30, 2016 · Although the First World War led to many radical changes on the world stage, including the appearance of rival visions of democratic participation, social justice and national self-determination, the years 1919 to 1939 must rank as one of the most difficult periods to categorise in the history of women's international activism.
4. Munich Agreement - Sudetenland (1938) 5. Czechoslovakia (1938) 6. USSR/Nazi Non-Aggression Pact (1939) 7. Poland (sept. 1, 1939) Study with Quizlet and memorize flashcards containing terms like What led to the rise of right-wing authoritarian regimes in continental Europe in the interwar period (1919 to 1939), Benito Mussolini, Fascism and more.
The Triple Alliance, made up of miners, rail workers, and other transport workers began the strike, and workers in other industries around the nation struck in sympathy. However, the spirit of Conservatism remained high and the government held out. The miners went back to work in December, forced by necessity, and the Trade Disputes Act of 1927 ...
