INTERWAR PERIOD BETWEEN WWI AND WWII BY MORGAN DARLING



  • marked by turmoil as Europe struggled to recover from the devastation of WWI
  • League of Nations creation with intentions being to maintain world security and peace and encouraging economic growth between member countries but undermined by japan, italy, and germany

-America
  • roaring 20's
  • onset of Great Depression in 1929

-Germany
  • Weimar Republic experienced hyperinflation and failed Beer Hall Putsch
  • depression
  • rise of Nazism
  • remilitarized the rhineland
  • invasion of Poland
  • occupation of the Ruhr
  • occupation of czechoslovakia
  • disregarded Treaty of Versailles
  • Participation in the Spanish Civil War

-France/Britain
  • weak, failed to stop italy from invading african countries
  • appeasement with Germany to avoid conflict
  • seeing the Treaty of Versailled as "unfair"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interwar_period