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Interwar period. Silesia tension between the Poles and Germans. In the history of the 20th century, the interwar period (or interbellum) lasted from 11 November 1918 to 1 September 1939 (20 years, 9 months, 21 days) – from the end of World War I to the beginning of World War II.
History of Europe - Interwar Years, WWI, WWII: Woodrow Wilson’s vision of a general association of nations took shape in the League of Nations, founded in 1920. Its basic constitution was the Covenant—Wilson’s word, chosen, as he said, “because I am an old Presbyterian.” The Covenant was embodied in the Versailles and other peace treaties. The League’s institutions, established in ...
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Several observers have recently invoked interwar political developments to make the case that even established democracies are fragile and vulnerable to breakdown. However, the real lesson of the interwar period is that even crises as devastating as the Great Depression and the political success of totalitarian movements did little to undermine ...
Oct 5, 2023 · What was the interwar period? The interwar period was the span of time that elapsed between the end of World War I (1914-1918) and the beginning of World War II (1939-1945). The period was characterized by a disillusionment of most social sectors with the idea of progress promoted by liberalism and parliamentary institutions, especially in ...
Photographs of the German and Soviet pavilions facing off at the Paris International Exposition in 1937 offer an iconic image of the interwar period, and with good reason. This image captures the interwar period's great conflict of ideologies, the international interconnectedness of the age and the aestheticisation of political and ideological ...
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Jan 20, 2017 · January 20, 2017 Quentin Bruneau. Since the onset of the Great Recession in 2008, it has become increasingly popular to make analogies with the 1920s and 1930s — otherwise known as the ‘interwar period’. Martin Wolf, a prominent columnist at the Financial Times, provides the latest example of this trend. The use of this ‘interwar ...
May 22, 2020 · By Daniel Laqua, published 22nd May 2020. Add to My HA. Email. Share. Tweet. The years between the Armistice of November 1918 and the German attack on Poland in September 1939 were undoubtedly a period of massive transformations. Public appetite to learn about specific aspects of this era remains strong.
