interwar period
Armistice to blitzkrieg
The interwar period is the roughly two decades between World War I and World War II, spanning 1918 to 1939.
The term appears primarily in historical writing to frame events—the Great Depression, the rise of fascism, the Treaty of Versailles—within this bounded era: interwar Europe, the interwar years.
- Kellogg-Briand PactTreaty outlawing aggressive warfare
- modernismFavoring contemporary approaches
- League of NationsEarly twentieth-century international body
- totalitarianismState controls everything absolutely
- hyperinflationExtreme rapid price escalation
Great Depression · fascism · jazz age · Treaty of Versailles · Spanish Civil War · disarmament · gold standard · appeasement · Harlem Renaissance · militarism · Weimar Republic · reparations · collective security · Munich Agreement · stock market crash · bread lines · 1920s · flappers
interwar periodwartime
Period of armed conflict
World War I · World War II · war years · Second World War · First World War
interwar periodEdwardian era
British period 1901-1910
Cold War era · post-war era · Victorian era · fin de siècle · nineteenth century