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Overview. The inter-war years refer to the pivotal 20 years that fell between the end of the First World War and the Second World War. The effects of World War One were profound for Europe. Ten million were killed and twice that number wounded in what has been dubbed the first modern war. All of the wars of the hundred years leading up to World ...
The interwar years (1919 – 1938) pose a challenging puzzle for students of globalization: Why did the prolonged period of relative peace and prosperity in Europe, from 1815 to 1914, give way to world war, economic collapse, and the rise of fascism and socialism? The interwar period began with the Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of ...
Jun 2, 2020 · Jewish Life during the Interwar Period. June 2, 2020 | European History, Religion. Todd M. Endelman and Zvi Gitelman —. The new states that emerged in Europe and the Middle East from the collapsed German, Austro-Hungarian, Russian, and Ottoman empires were insecure, fearing their neighbors and their demands to change the borders created by ...
Jul 2, 2019 · In section 4, we provide a quantitative analysis of bilateral trade flows during the interwar period. Based on a comprehensive annual panel data set drawn from Jacks and Novy ( 2018 ), we analyze the performance of two trade blocs (the Commonwealth and the so-called Reichsmark bloc) and two currency blocs (the gold bloc and the sterling area ...
Nationalism in the interwar period. Nationalism continues to be one of the most controversial political currents of the 20th century. After more than two hundred years since its emergence as a political movement, the nationalist ideology exerts a powerful attraction in countries with liberal and democratic traditions, as well as in the post ...
The League of Nations, for its part, moved from its focus on settling conflicts to attempts to disarm the European militaries which had been built up during the war. In this arena it fared little better than it had in the latter. Disarmament was a major goal of the League. Article III of the Covenant of the League called for "reduction of ...
interwar period in Europe provides a unique setting, since the cases to be considered share many common socioeconomic and political-cultural characteristics. Their history is relatively well researched and well documented. The time period under consideration is clearly demarcated by common events, the two world wars which significantly altered both
