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Boundaries in 1920. 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. It was relatively short, yet featured many social, political, and economic changes throughout the world.
Jul 2, 2019 · In section 3, we provide a narrative account of world trade during the interwar period. Following a swift and somewhat surprising post-war recovery, the early 1930s gave rise to a trade collapse in the wake of the Great Depression and the outbreak of protectionism.
- David S. Jacks, Dennis Novy
- 2020
Aug 28, 2022 · In Europe, Britain and the United States would have to build their former enemy Germany back up as a bulwark to hold back the Soviets (Anderson, 2017), while of a slightly lesser order was the task of containing the various left-wing resistance movements which had sprung up in France, Belgium, Italy, Yugoslavia, and Greece (Anderson, 2017).
Home World History. The interwar years. Hopes in Geneva. Europe, 1920–38. 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.”
Jan 18, 2018 · The interwar period helped to promote postwar protectionism in this and many other ways. And where countries had, in the 1930s, the political independence required in order to make their own choices about trade policy, they typically used that independence to erect a variety of trade barriers.
- Kevin Hjortshøj O’Rourke
- kevin.orourke@all-souls.ox.ac.uk
- 2018
Chart 1). Using a unique new set of data compiled by the IMF that records sovereign debt at the instrument level, we took a close look at the web of debt—most of it incurred because of World War I—that linked the world’s major economies in the interwar period.
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 the stability of established democratic systems.
