Interwar period

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The Interwar period was the turbulent era between World War I and World War II marked by political upheaval, economic crises, and the rise of totalitarian regimes across Europe and beyond.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf 20th-century era
historical period
alsoKnownAs inter-war years
interwar years
causeOf conditions leading to World War II
definedBy period between the armistice of 1918 and the outbreak of war in 1939
endTime 1939
follows World War I
hasCharacteristic economic crisis
ideological polarization
political instability
rise of totalitarianism
territorial revisionism
weak international order
hasPart Anschluss of Austria
Chinese Civil War (early phase)
First Austrian Republic
First Czechoslovak Republic
Great Depression
Irish Civil War
Irish War of Independence
Italian invasion of Albania
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
Kellogg–Briand Pact era
League of Nations era
Locarno Era
Munich Agreement crisis
Nazi–Soviet Pact negotiations
New Deal era in the United States
Polish–Soviet War
Roaring Twenties
Second Italo-Ethiopian War
Second Polish Republic
Spanish Civil War
Stalinist industrialization
Washington Naval Conference period
Weimar Republic era
hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic
occupation of the Ruhr
remilitarization of the Rhineland
rise of Fascist Italy
rise of Imperial Japan
rise of Nazi Germany
rise of authoritarian regimes in Eastern Europe
rise of communist movements
rise of far-right movements in Europe
rise of militarism in Japan
rise of the Soviet Union
location Africa
Asia
Europe
Latin America
North America
mainConflict Second Italo-Ethiopian War
Sino-Japanese conflict
Spanish Civil War
mainEconomicEvent Great Depression
global trade contraction
post–World War I reconstruction
mainIdeology Nazism
communism
fascism
liberal democracy
militarism
mainPoliticalDevelopment appeasement policy
collapse of empires
consolidation of the Soviet Union
creation of the League of Nations
redrawing of European borders
rise of Nazism
rise of fascism
precedes World War II
significantEvent Beer Hall Putsch
Indian independence movement escalation
Kristallnacht
May 1926 General Strike in the United Kingdom
Night of the Long Knives
Wall Street Crash of 1929
early development of aviation and civil air travel
founding of the Republic of Turkey
rise of mass culture and radio
significantOrganization Chinese Communist Party
Comintern
Imperial Japanese Army
Kuomintang
League of Nations
National Fascist Party
Nazi Party
significantTreaty Kellogg–Briand Pact
Locarno Treaties
Treaty of Lausanne
Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Treaty of Sèvres
Treaty of Trianon
Treaty of Versailles
startTime 1918


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