Events after the end of the war in 1918
Aftermath of World War I
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Date
| 11 November 1918 ? 1 September 1939
(20 years, 9 months and 3 weeks)
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Outcome
| Political and social changes such as:
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The
aftermath of World War I
saw far-reaching and wide-ranging cultural, economic, and social change across
Europe
,
Asia
,
Africa
, and even in areas outside those that were directly involved. Four empires collapsed due to the war, old countries were abolished, new ones were formed, boundaries were redrawn, international organizations were established, and many new and old ideologies took a firm hold in people's minds.
World War I
also had the effect of bringing political transformation to most of the principal parties involved in the conflict, transforming them into
electoral democracies
by bringing near-
universal suffrage
for the first time in history, as in Germany (
1919 German federal election
), Great Britain (
1918 United Kingdom general election
), and Turkey (
1923 Turkish general election
).
[
citation needed
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Blockade of Germany
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Through the period from the
Armistice of 11 November 1918
until the signing of the
Treaty of Versailles
with the
Weimar Republic
on 28 June 1919, the
Allies
maintained the naval blockade of Germany that had begun during the war. As the
German economy
was dependent on imports, it is estimated that around half a million civilians had died.
[1]
N. P. Howard, of the
University of Sheffield
, estimates that a quarter of a million
excess deaths
occurred in eight-month period following the conclusion of the conflict, 40% of which took place in November 1918, making for 474,085 excess deaths for the entire 1914-1919 period.
[2]
The continuation of the blockade after the fighting ended, as author
Robert Leckie
wrote in
Delivered from Evil
, did much to "torment the Germans ... driving them with the fury of despair into the arms of the devil."
[
citation needed
]
The terms of the
Armistice
did allow food to be shipped into Germany, but the Allies required that Germany provide the means (the shipping) to do so. The German government was required to use its gold reserves, being unable to secure a loan from the United States.
[
citation needed
]
Historian Sally Marks claims that while "Allied warships remained in place against a possible resumption of hostilities, the Allies offered food and medicine after the armistice, but Germany refused to allow its ships to carry supplies". Further, Marks states that despite the problems facing the Allies, from the German government, "Allied food shipments arrived in Allied ships before the charge made at Versailles".
[3]
This position is also supported by Elisabeth Glaser who notes that an Allied task force, to help feed the German population, was established in early 1919 and that by May 1919 Germany "became the chief recipient of American and Allied food shipments". Glaser further claims that during the early months of 1919, while the main relief effort was being planned, France provided food shipments to
Bavaria
and the
Rhineland
. She further claims that the German government delayed the relief effort by refusing to surrender their merchant fleet to the Allies. Finally, she concludes that "the very success of the relief effort had in effect deprived the [Allies] of a credible threat to induce Germany to sign the Treaty of Versailles.
[4]
However, it is also the case that for eight months following the end of hostilities, some form of blockade was continually in place, with some contemporary estimates that a further 100,000 casualties among German civilians due to starvation were caused, on top of the hundreds of thousands which already had occurred. Food shipments, furthermore, had been entirely dependent on Allied goodwill, causing at least in part the post-hostilities irregularity.
[5]
[6]
Paris Peace Conference
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After the
Paris Peace Conference
of 1919, the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on 28 June 1919, between Germany on the one side and France, Italy, Britain and other minor allied powers on the other, officially ended war between those countries. Other treaties ended the relationships of the United States and the other Central Powers. Included in the 440 articles of the Treaty of Versailles were the demands that Germany officially accept
responsibility "for causing all the loss and damage" of the war
and pay
economic reparations
. The treaty drastically limited the German military machine: German troops were reduced to 100,000 and the country was prevented from possessing major military armaments such as tanks, warships, armored vehicles and submarines.
Influenza epidemic
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Historians continue to argue about the impact the
1918 flu pandemic
had on the outcome of the war. It has been posited that the Central Powers may have been exposed to the viral wave before the Allies. The resulting casualties having greater effect, having been incurred during the war, as opposed to the allies who suffered the brunt of the pandemic after the Armistice. When the extent of the epidemic was realized, the respective censorship programs of the Allies and Central Powers limited the public's knowledge regarding the true extent of the disease. Because
Spain
was
neutral
, their
media
was free to report on the Flu, giving the impression that it began there. This misunderstanding led to contemporary reports naming it the "
Spanish flu
." Investigative work by a British team led by virologist
John Oxford
of
St Bartholomew's Hospital
and the
Royal London Hospital
, identified a major troop staging and hospital camp in
Etaples
, France as almost certainly being the center of the 1918 flu pandemic. A significant precursor virus was harbored in birds, and mutated to pigs that were kept near the front.
[8]
The exact number of deaths is unknown but about 50 million people are estimated to have died from the influenza outbreak worldwide.
[9]
[10]
In 2005, a study found that, "The
1918 virus strain
developed in birds and was similar to the
'bird flu'
that in the 21st century spurred fears of another worldwide pandemic, yet proved to be a normal treatable virus that did not produce a heavy impact on the world's health."
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Formation of national identities
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After 123 years,
Poland
re-emerged as an independent country. The
Kingdom of Serbia
and its dynasty, as a "minor Entente nation" and the country with the most casualties per capita,
[12]
[13]
[14]
became the backbone of a new multinational state, the
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
, later renamed Yugoslavia.
Czechoslovakia
, combining the
Kingdom of Bohemia
with parts of the Kingdom of Hungary, became a new nation. Romania would
unite
all Romanian-speaking people under a single state leading to
Greater Romania
.
[15]
Russia became the
Soviet Union
and lost
Finland
,
Estonia
,
Lithuania
, and
Latvia
, which became independent countries. The
Ottoman Empire
was soon replaced by
Turkey
and many of its territories became mandates under British or French rule.
In the British Empire, the war unleashed new forms of nationalism. In the Dominions of Australia and New Zealand, the Battle of Gallipoli became known as those nations' "Baptism of Fire". It was the first major war in which the newly established countries fought, and it was one of the first times that Australian troops fought as Australians, not just subjects of the
British Crown
, and independent national identities for these nations took hold.
Anzac Day
, commemorating the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC), celebrates this defining moment.
[16]
[17]
After the Battle of Vimy Ridge, where the Canadian divisions fought together for the first time as a single corps, Canadians began to refer to their country as a nation "forged from fire".
[18]
Having succeeded on the same battleground where the "mother countries" had previously faltered, they were for the first time respected internationally for their own accomplishments. Like Australia and New Zealand,
Canada
entered the war as a
Dominion of the British Empire
and remained so, although it emerged with a greater measure of independence.
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[20]
When Britain declared war in 1914, the dominions were automatically at war; at the conclusion, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa were individual signatories of the Treaty of Versailles.
[21]
Lobbying by
Chaim Weizmann
and fear that American Jews would encourage the United States to support Germany culminated in the British government's
Balfour Declaration
of 1917, endorsing creation of a
Jewish homeland
in Palestine.
[22]
A total of more than 1,172,000 Jewish soldiers served in the Allied and Central Power forces in World War
I, including 275,000 in Austria-Hungary and 450,000 in Tsarist Russia.
[23]
The establishment of the modern state of Israel and the roots of the continuing
Israeli?Palestinian conflict
are partially found in the unstable power dynamics of the Middle East that resulted from World War
I.
Before the end of the war, the Ottoman Empire had maintained a modest level of peace and stability throughout some parts of the Middle East, although during the war the Ottomans conducted the ethnically and religiously motivated
Greek genocide
,
Armenian genocide
and
Assyrian genocide
, as well as overseeing
The Great Famine of Mount Lebanon
.
With the fall of the Ottoman government, power vacuums developed and conflicting claims to land and nationhood began to emerge.
The political boundaries drawn by the victors of World War
I were quickly imposed, sometimes after only cursory consultation with the local population. These continue to be problematic in the 21st-century struggles for
national identity
.
While the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War
I was pivotal in contributing to the modern political situation of the Middle East, including the
Arab-Israeli conflict
,
[29]
[30]
[31]
the end of Ottoman rule also spawned lesser-known disputes over water and other natural resources.
The prestige of Germany and German things in
Latin America
remained high after the war but did not recover to its pre-war levels.
[33]
[34]
Indeed, in
Chile
the war bought an end to a period of intense scientific and cultural influence writer
Eduardo de la Barra
scornfully called "the German bewitchment" (
Spanish
:
el embrujamiento aleman
).
[33]
The Transylvanian and Bukovinian Romanians who were taken prisoners of war fought as the
Romanian Volunteer Corps in Russia
, Romanian Legion of Siberia and Romanian Legion in Italy. Taking part in the Eastern Front as part of the
Russian Army
and since summer 1917 in the Romanian front as part of the
Romanian Army
. As a supporter of the
White movement
with the
Czechoslovak Legion
against the
Red Army
during the
Russian Civil War
. In the battles of Montello, Vittorio Veneto, Sisemolet, Piave, Cimone, Monte Grappa, Nervesa and Ponte Delle Alpi as part of the
Italian Army
against
Austria-Hungary
and in 1919 as part of the
Romanian Army
in the
Hungarian-Romanian War
.
[35]
[36]
In the late spring of 1918, three new states were formed in the
South Caucasus
: the
First Republic of Armenia
, the
Azerbaijan Democratic Republic
, and the
Democratic Republic of Georgia
, which declared their independence from the Russian Empire. Two other minor entities were established, the
Centrocaspian Dictatorship
and
South West Caucasian Republic
(the former was liquidated by Azerbaijan in the autumn of 1918 and the latter by a joint Armenian-British task force in early 1919). With the withdrawal of the Russian armies from the Caucasus front in the winter of 1917?18, the three major republics braced for an imminent Ottoman advance, which commenced in the early months of 1918. Solidarity was briefly maintained when the
Transcaucasian Federative Republic
was created in the spring of 1918, but this collapsed in May when the Georgians
asked for and received protection
from Germany and the Azerbaijanis concluded a treaty with the Ottoman Empire that was more akin to a military alliance. Armenia was left to fend for itself and struggled for five months against the threat of a full-fledged occupation by the Ottoman Turks before defeating them at the
Battle of Sardarabad
.
Greece
fought
against
Turkish nationalists
led by
Mustafa Kemal
, a war that eventually resulted in a
massive population exchange between the two countries
under the Treaty of Lausanne.
[38]
According to various sources,
[39]
several hundred thousand Greeks died during this period, which was tied in with the
Greek genocide
.
[40]
Political upheavals
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Revolutions
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A
far-left
and often explicitly
communist
revolutionary wave
occurred in several European countries in 1917?1920, notably in
Germany
and
Hungary
. The single most important event precipitated by the privations of World War I was the
Russian Revolution of 1917
.
Austria-Hungary
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With the war having turned decisively against the
Central Powers
, the people of
Austria-Hungary
lost faith in their allied countries, and even before the armistice in November, radical
nationalism
had already led to several
declarations of independence
in south-central Europe after November 1918. As the central government had ceased to operate in vast areas, these regions found themselves without a government and many new groups attempted to fill the void. During this same period, the population was facing food shortages and was, for the most part, demoralized by the losses incurred during the war. Various political parties, ranging from ardent nationalists, to social democrats, to communists attempted to set up governments in the names of the different nationalities. In other areas, existing nation states such as
Romania
engaged regions that they considered to be theirs. These moves created de facto governments that complicated life for diplomats, idealists, and the Western allies.
The Western forces were officially supposed to occupy the old Empire, but rarely had enough troops to do so effectively. They had to deal with local authorities who had their own agenda to fulfill. At the peace conference in Paris the diplomats had to reconcile these authorities with the competing demands of the nationalists who had turned to them for help during the war, the strategic or political desires of the Western allies themselves, and other agendas such as a desire to implement the spirit of the Fourteen Points.
For example, in order to live up to the ideal of self-determination laid out in the Fourteen Points, Germans, whether Austrian or German, should be able to decide their own future and government. However, the French especially were concerned that an expanded Germany would be a huge security risk. Further complicating the situation, delegations such as the Czechs and Slovenians made strong claims on some German-speaking territories.
The result was treaties that compromised many ideals, offended many allies, and set up an entirely new order in the area. Many people hoped that the new nation states would allow for a new era of prosperity and peace in the region, free from the bitter quarrelling between nationalities that had marked the preceding fifty years. This hope proved far too optimistic. Changes in territorial configuration after World War I included:
- Establishment of the
Republic of German Austria
and the
Hungarian Democratic Republic
, disavowing any continuity with the empire and exiling the
Habsburg
family in perpetuity.
- Eventually, after 1920, the new borders of
Hungary
did not include approx. two-thirds of the lands of the former
Kingdom of Hungary
, including areas where the ethnic Magyars were in a majority. The new republic of
Austria
maintained control over most of the predominantly German-controlled areas, but lost various other German majority lands in what was the
Austrian Empire
.
- Bohemia
,
Moravia
,
Opava Silesia
and the western part of the
Duchy of Cieszyn
, large part of
Upper Hungary
and
Carpathian Ruthenia
formed the new
Czechoslovakia
.
- Galicia
, the eastern part of the
Duchy of Cieszyn
, northern
Arva County
and northern
Szepes County
were transferred to
Poland
.
- the Southern half of the
County of Tyrol
and
Trieste
were granted to
Italy
.
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
,
Croatia-Slavonia
,
Međimurje
,
Dalmatia
,
Slovenia
,
Syrmia
, parts of
Bacs-Bodrog, Baranya, Torontal and Temes Counties
were joined with
Serbia
to form the
Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
, later
Yugoslavia
.
- Transylvania
, parts of
Banat
,
Cri?ana
, and
Maramure?
and
Bukovina
became part of
Romania
.
- The
Austro-Hungarian concession in Tianjin
was ceded to the
Republic of China
.
These changes were recognized in, but not caused by, the Treaty of Versailles. They were subsequently further elaborated in the
Treaty of Saint-Germain
and the
Treaty of Trianon
.
The 1919 treaties generally included guarantees of
minority rights
, but there was no enforcement mechanism. The new states of eastern Europe mostly all had large
ethnic minorities
. Millions of Germans found themselves in the newly created countries as minorities. More than two million ethnic
Hungarians
found themselves living outside of Hungary in Czechoslovakia, Romania and the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Many of these national minorities found themselves in hostile situations because the modern governments were intent on defining the national character of the countries, often at the expense of the other nationalities. The
interwar years
were hard for
religious minorities
in the new states built around
ethnic nationalism
. The
Jews
were especially distrusted because of their minority religion and distinct subculture. This was a dramatic come-down from the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Although
antisemitism
had been widespread during
Habsburg rule
, Jews faced no official discrimination because they were, for the most part, ardent supporters of the multi-national state and the monarchy.
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The economic disruption of the war and the end of the Austro-Hungarian
customs union
created great hardship in many areas. Although many states were set up as democracies after the war, one by one, with the exception of Czechoslovakia, they reverted to some form of authoritarian rule. Many quarreled amongst themselves but were too weak to compete effectively. Later, when
Germany rearmed
, the nation states of
south-central Europe
were unable to resist its attacks, and fell under German domination to a much greater extent than had ever existed in Austria-Hungary.
Germany
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In Germany, there was a socialist revolution which led to the brief establishment of a number of communist political systems in (mainly urban) parts of the country, the abdication of
Kaiser Wilhelm II
, and the creation of the
Weimar Republic
.
On 28 June 1919 the Weimar Republic was forced, under threat of continued Allied advance, to sign the Treaty of Versailles. Germany viewed the one-sided treaty as a humiliation and as
blaming it for the entire war
. While the intent of the treaty was to assign guilt to Germany to justify financial reparations, the notion of blame took root as a political issue in German society and was never accepted by nationalists, although it was argued by some, such as German historian
Fritz Fischer
. The German government disseminated
propaganda
to further promote this idea, and funded the
Centre for the Study of the Causes of the War
to this end.
132 billion gold marks ($31.5 billion, 6.6 billion pounds) were demanded from Germany in reparations, of which only 50 billion had to be paid. In order to finance the purchases of foreign currency required to pay off the reparations, the new German republic printed tremendous amounts of money ? to disastrous effect.
Hyperinflation
plagued Germany between 1921 and 1923. In this period the worth of
fiat
Papiermarks
with respect to the earlier
commodity
Goldmarks
was reduced to one trillionth (one million millionth) of its value.
[42]
In December 1922 the Reparations Commission declared Germany in default, and on 11 January 1923 French and Belgian troops
occupied the Ruhr
until 1925.
The treaty required Germany to permanently reduce the size of its army to 100,000 men, and destroy their tanks, air force, and U-boat fleet (her capital ships, moored at
Scapa Flow
, were
scuttled by their crews
to prevent them from falling into Allied hands).
Germany saw relatively small amounts of territory transferred
to Denmark
, Czechoslovakia, and Belgium, a larger
amount to France
(including the temporary French occupation of the Rhineland) and the greatest portion as part of a reestablished Poland. Germany's overseas colonies were divided between a number of Allied countries, most notably the United Kingdom in Africa, but it was the loss of the territory that composed the newly independent Polish state, including the German city of
Danzig
and the separation of East Prussia from the rest of Germany, that caused the greatest outrage
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]
. Nazi propaganda would feed on a general German view that the treaty was unfair ? many Germans never accepted the treaty as legitimate, and lent their political support to
Adolf Hitler
.
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Ottoman Empire
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At the end of the war, the Allies
occupied Constantinople
(
Istanbul
) and the Ottoman government collapsed. The
Treaty of Sevres
, designed to repair damage caused by Ottomans during the war to the winning Allies, was signed by Ottoman Empire on 10 August 1920, but was never ratified by the Sultan.
The
occupation of Smyrna
by Greece on 18 May 1919 triggered a
nationalist movement
to rescind the terms of the treaty.
Turkish revolutionaries
led by
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
, a successful Ottoman commander, rejected the terms enforced at Sevres and under the guise of General Inspector of the
Ottoman Army
, left Istanbul for
Samsun
to organize the remaining Ottoman forces to resist the terms of the treaty. On the eastern front, after the
invasion of Armenia in 1920
and signing of the
Treaty of Kars
with the
Russian S.F.S.R.
Turkey took over territory lost to Armenia and post-Imperial Russia.
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On the western front, the growing strength of the
Turkish National Movement
forces led the
Kingdom of Greece
, with the backing of Britain, to invade deep into
Anatolia
in an attempt to deal a blow to the revolutionaries. At the
Battle of Dumlupınar
, the Greek army was defeated and forced into retreat, leading to the burning of Smyrna and the withdrawal of Greece from Asia Minor. With the nationalists empowered, the army marched on to reclaim Istanbul, resulting in the
Chanak Crisis
in which the British Prime Minister,
David Lloyd George
, was forced to resign. After Turkish resistance gained control over Anatolia and Istanbul, the Sevres treaty was superseded by the
Treaty of Lausanne
which formally ended all hostilities and led to the creation of the modern
Turkish Republic
. As a result, Turkey became the only power of World War I to overturn the terms of its defeat, and negotiate with the Allies as an equal.
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Lausanne Treaty formally acknowledged the new League of Nations mandates in the Middle East, the cession of their territories on the Arabian Peninsula, and British sovereignty over
Cyprus
. The League of Nations granted
Class A
mandates for the
Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon
and
British Mandate of Mesopotamia
and
Palestine
, the latter comprising two autonomous regions:
Mandate Palestine
and the
Emirate of Transjordan
. Parts of the Ottoman Empire on the
Arabian Peninsula
became part of what is today
Saudi Arabia
and
Yemen
. The
dissolution of the Ottoman Empire
became a pivotal milestone in the creation of the modern Middle East, the result of which bore witness to the creation of new conflicts and hostilities in the region.
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Russian Empire
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The Soviet Union benefited from Germany's loss, as one of the first terms of the armistice was the abrogation of the
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
. At the time of the armistice Russia was in the grips of a
civil war
which left more than seven million people dead and large areas of the country devastated. The nation as a whole suffered socially and economically.
Lithuania
,
Latvia
and
Estonia
gained independence. They were
occupied again by the Soviet Union
in 1940.
Finland
gained a lasting independence, though it repeatedly had to fight the Soviet Union for its borders in the
Winter War
.
Armenia
,
Georgia
, and
Azerbaijan
were established as independent states in the
Caucasus region
. However, after the withdrawal of the
Russian Army
in 1917 and during
1920 Turkish invasion of Armenia
, Turkey captured the Armenian territory around
Artvin
,
Kars
, and
I?dır
, and these territorial losses became permanent. As consequence of invasions of Turkey and Russian
Red Army
all three Transcaucasian countries were proclaimed as
Soviet Republics
in 1920 and in 1922 were absorbed into the Soviet Union as the
Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic
.
Romania
gained
Bessarabia
from Russia.
The
Russian concession of Tianjin
was occupied by the Chinese
Beiyang government
in 1920; in 1924 the Soviet Union renounced its claims to the district.
United Kingdom
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In the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
, funding the war had a
severe economic cost
. From being the world's largest overseas investor, it became one of its biggest debtors with interest payments forming around 40% of all government spending.
Inflation
more than doubled between 1914 and its peak in 1920, while the value of the
Pound Sterling
(consumer expenditure
[46]
) fell by 61.2%.
War reparations
in the form of free German coal depressed local industry, precipitating the
1926 United Kingdom general strike
.
British private investments abroad were sold, raising £550 million. However, £250 million in new investment also took place during the war. The net financial loss was therefore approximately £300 million; less than two years investment compared to the pre-war average rate and more than replaced by 1928.
[47]
Material loss was "slight": the most significant being 40% of the
British Merchant Navy
sunk by
German U-boats
. Most of this was replaced in 1918 and all immediately after the war.
[48]
The military historian
Correlli Barnett
has argued that "in objective truth the Great War in no way inflicted crippling economic damage on Britain" but that the war "crippled the British
psychologically
but in no other way".
[49]
Less concrete changes include the growing assertiveness of
Commonwealth
nations. Battles such as
Gallipoli
for Australia and New Zealand, and
Vimy Ridge
for Canada led to increased national pride and a greater reluctance to remain subordinate to Britain, leading to the growth of diplomatic autonomy in the 1920s. These battles were often decorated in propaganda in these nations as symbolic of their power during the war. Overseas possessions such as
British India
and
Nigeria
also became increasingly assertive, because of their participation in the war. The populations in these countries became increasingly aware of their own power and Britain's fragility.
In
Ireland
, the delaying of the
Government of Ireland Act 1914
, which was enacted to resolve the
Home Rule issue
, later exacerbated by the Government's
severe response
to the 1916
Easter Rising
and its failed attempt to introduce
conscription in Ireland in 1918
, led to an increased support for separatist radicals. This led indirectly to the outbreak of the
Irish War of Independence
in 1919. The creation of the
Irish Free State
that followed this conflict in effect represented a territorial loss for the United Kingdom that was all but equal to the loss sustained by Germany, and furthermore, compared to Germany, a much greater loss in terms of its ratio to the country's prewar territory. However, the new Irish Free State remained a
dominion
within the
British Empire
.
World War I also caused a major realignment in British parliamentary politics by leading to the rise of the
democratic socialist
Labour Party
and to the break-up and decline of the
social liberal
Liberal Party
. Liberal Prime Minister
H. H. Asquith
ran into disagreements with not only the
Conservative Party
opposition but members of his own party led by
David Lloyd George
who disagreed with his handling of the war. Although Asquith agreed to form a coalition government, the disputes continued and eventually Lloyd George led a faction of the Liberals to form a new
coalition government
with the cooperation of the Conservatives. During the
1918 "coupon" election
Conservatives and
Liberals endorsed by the Coalition
won a landslide majority in the British Parliament. However, the split between Lloyd George's
National Liberals
and Asquith's
Independent Liberals
fatally weakened the party. On the other hand, the Labour Party remained unified despite tensions between pacifist and pro-war leaders, used the war to expand the
British trade union movement
, and benefitted from the establishment of
universal suffrage
under the
Representation of the People Act 1918
. As a result both Liberal factions performed poorly in the
1922 general election
while Labour became the
Official Opposition
for the first time. The Liberals reluctantly collaborated with Labour to help it form a brief
minority government
under
Ramsay MacDonald
. The Liberals would not fully reunify until Asquith's death in 1928, and thereafter primarily expressed influence through
confidence and supply
arrangements and
coalitions
in the event of a
hung parliament
.
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China
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The
Republic of China
had been one of the Allies; during the war, they had sent
thousands of labourers
to France. At the
Paris Peace Conference in 1919
, the Chinese delegation called for an end to Western imperialistic institutions in China, but was rebuffed. China requested at least the formal restoration of its territory of
Jiaozhou Bay
, under German colonial control as the
Kiautschou Bay Leased Territory
since 1898. But the western Allies rejected China's request, instead granting transfer to Japan of all of Germany's pre-war territory and rights in China. Subsequently, China did not sign the Treaty of Versailles, instead signing a separate peace treaty with Germany in 1921.
The Austro-Hungarian and German
concessions in Tianjin
were placed under the administration of the Chinese government; in 1920 they occupied the Russian area as well.
The western Allies' substantial accession to Japan's territorial ambitions at China's expense led to the
May Fourth Movement
in China, a social and political movement that had profound influence over subsequent Chinese history. The May Fourth Movement is often cited as the birth of
Chinese nationalism
, and both the
Kuomintang
and
Chinese Communist Party
consider the Movement to be an important period in their own histories.
France
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Alsace?Lorraine
returned to France, the region which had been ceded to the
Kingdom of Prussia
in 1871 after the
Franco-Prussian War
. At the 1919 Peace Conference, Prime Minister
Georges Clemenceau
's aim was to ensure that Germany would not seek revenge in the following years. To this purpose, the chief commander of the Allied forces, Marshal
Ferdinand Foch
, had demanded that for the future protection of France the
Rhine
river should now form the border between France and Germany. Based on history, he was convinced that Germany would again become a threat, and, on hearing the terms of the Treaty of Versailles that had left Germany substantially intact, he observed that "This is not Peace. It is an Armistice for twenty years."
The destruction brought upon French territory was to be indemnified by the
reparations
negotiated at Versailles. This financial imperative dominated France's foreign policy throughout the 1920s, leading to the 1923
Occupation of the Ruhr
in order to force Germany to pay. However, Germany was unable to pay, and obtained support from the United States. Thus, the
Dawes Plan
was negotiated after Prime Minister
Raymond Poincare
's occupation of the Ruhr, and then the
Young Plan
in 1929.
Also extremely important in the War was the participation of
French colonial troops
(who amounted for around 10% of the total number of troops deployed by France across the war), including the Senegalese
tirailleurs
, and troops from
Indochina
,
North Africa
, and
Madagascar
. When these soldiers returned to their homelands and continued to be treated as second class citizens, many became the nuclei of pro-independence groups.
Furthermore, under the state of war declared during the hostilities, the
French economy
had been somewhat centralized in order to be able to shift into a "
war economy
", leading to a first breach with
classical liberalism
.
Finally, the socialists' support of the National Union government (including
Alexandre Millerand
's nomination as Minister of War) marked a shift towards the
French Section of the Workers' International
's (SFIO) turn towards
social democracy
and participation in "bourgeois governments", although
Leon Blum
maintained a socialist rhetoric.
Women in France
[
edit
]
“But with its faceless state machinery and unremitting mechanized slaughter, the war instead collapsed these old ideals”
[52]
(Roberts 2). When the war was over and the men returned home, the world was a vastly different place than it had been before the war. Many ideals and beliefs were shattered with the war. Those returning from the front lines, and even those who were on the Homefront, were left to pick up the pieces of what was left of those ideals and beliefs, and try to rebuild them. Before the Great War, many thought this war would be a quick war, like many before had been. With new technology and weapons though, the war was at a stalemate for a large part of it, dragging what many thought would be a quick war out into a long, grueling war. With so much death and destruction done to France, it is not surprising when looking back that the way of life for French citizens was forever changed.
Many citizens saw the change in culture and blamed the war for taking away the rose tinted glasses that society had viewed things through. Many scholars and writers, such as Drieu la Rochelle, found many ways to describe this new view on reality such as stripping away clothes
[53]
(Roberts 2). This comparison of the new reality and clothing being stripped away also ties into the fact that gender roles changed greatly after the war.
During the war many jobs had been left to women because many men were fighting on the front lines. This gave women a new sense of freedom that they had not been able to experience ever before. Not many women wanted to go back to how things were before the war, when they expected to stay at home and take care of the house. When the war was over many of the older generations and men wanted women to return to their previous roles.
At a time where gender roles were so heavily defined and intertwined with the culture of many places, for French citizens viewing how many women went against said roles after World War I, or the Great War as it was called at the time, it was ghastly. While
gender roles
had slowly been changing over time since the
Industrial Revolution
gave more work options outside of the home in factories, it had never been such a quick and drastic change as it was after World War I. During the war many men went off to fight, leaving behind factory jobs that were usually seen as a man's job only. These jobs had to be filled and without men there to fill the jobs, it was women who stepped up to fill the hole instead. France suffered a great loss of life during World War I, leaving many jobs unable to be refilled even after the war.
Debates and discussions concerning gender identity and gender roles in relation to society became one of the main ways to discuss the war and people's stances on it
[54]
(Roberts 5). The war left people struggling to grasp the new reality. There were mixed reactions to the new way of life after World War I and how it affected both men and women. Some people were willing to completely embrace the new standards that were emerging following the war, while others harshly rejected the changes, seeing the changes as summarizing all the horrors they experienced during the war. Others looked for ways to compromise between the new and old way of life, tried to combine the ideals and beliefs from before and after the war to find a healthy middle ground.
Discussions pertaining to women during post-war debates often split the view of women into three categories?the “modern woman,” the “mother,” and the “single woman”
[55]
(Roberts 9). These categories broke up the view of women by the roles they took on, the jobs they did, the way they acted, or by the beliefs they might hold. These categories also came to encompass the views of gender roles in relation to before and after the war. The “mother” category relates back to the role of women before the Great War, the woman who stayed at home and took care of the household while the husband was off at work. The “modern woman” relates to how many women were after the war, working jobs meant for men, engaging in sexual pleasures, and often doing things at a fast pace. The “single woman” was the middle ground between the other two that were very different from one another. The “single woman” came to represent the women who would never be able to marry because there were not enough men for every woman to marry
[56]
(Roberts 10).
One thing that sparked much debate in regards to the postwar woman is fashion. During the war things like cloth material were rationed, with people being encouraged to not use as much fabric, so that there would be enough for the military. In response to these rations, women wore shorter dresses and skirts, usually about knee length, or pants. This change in apparel was something that many women continued to wear even after the war ended. It was such a drastic change to the clothing norms for women before the war. This change led to some “modern women” to be described in harsh lights, as if wearing dresses and skirts that short showed that those women were promiscuous.
Those coming back from the war, from the fighting, were very traumatized and had wanted to come back to a home that was not very changed in order to give themselves a sense of normalcy. When these men came back to a home that had changed a lot they did not know what to make of it. Gone were the times of very defined gender roles that most of society conformed to. It was often hard for these traumatized men to accept these new changes, especially the changes in how women behaved.
Italy
[
edit
]
In 1882,
Italy
joined with the
German Empire
and the
Austro-Hungarian Empire
to form the
Triple Alliance
. However, even if relations with
Berlin
became very friendly, the alliance with
Vienna
remained purely formal, as the Italians were keen to acquire
Trentino
and
Trieste
, parts of the Austro-Hungarian empire populated by Italians.
During
World War I
Italy aligned with the Allies, instead of joining Germany and Austria. This could happen since the alliance formally had merely defensive prerogatives, while the Central Empires were the ones who started the offensive. With the
Treaty of London
, Britain secretly offered Italy
Trentino
and
Tyrol
as far as
Brenner
,
Trieste
and
Istria
, all the
Dalmatian
coast except
Fiume
, full ownership of Albanian
Valona
and a protectorate over
Albania
,
Antalya
in
Turkey
and a share of the
Turkish
and
German colonial empire
, in exchange for Italy siding against the Central Empires
[
citation needed
]
.
After the victory,
Vittorio Orlando
, Italy's
President of the Council of Ministers
, and
Sidney Sonnino
, its
Foreign Minister
, were sent as the Italian representatives to
Paris
with the aim of gaining the promised territories and as much other land as possible. In particular, there was an especially strong opinion about the status of
Fiume
, which they believed was rightly Italian due to Italian population, in agreement with
Wilson
's
Fourteen Points
, the ninth of which read:
"A readjustment of the frontiers of Italy should be effected along clearly recognizable lines of nationality
".
Nevertheless, by the end of the war the Allies realized they had made contradictory agreements with other Nations, especially regarding
Central Europe
and the
Middle East
. In the meetings of the "Big Four", in which Orlando's powers of diplomacy were inhibited by his lack of English, the Great powers were only willing to offer
Trentino
to the
Brenner
, the Dalmatian port of
Zara
, the island of
Lagosta
and a couple of small German colonies. All other territories were promised to other nations and the great powers were worried about Italy's imperial ambitions; Wilson, in particular, was a staunch supporter of Yugoslav rights on Dalmatia against Italy and despite the Treaty of London which he did not recognize.
[57]
As a result of this, Orlando left the conference in a rage. This simply favored Britain and France, which divided among themselves the former Ottoman and German territories in Africa.
[58]
In Italy, the discontent was relevant:
irredentists
(see:
irredentismo
) claimed Fiume and Dalmatia as Italian lands; many felt the Country had taken part in a meaningless war without getting any serious benefits. This idea of a "mutilated victory" (
vittoria mutilata
) was the reason which led to the
Impresa di Fiume
("
Fiume Exploit
"). On September 12, 1919, the nationalist poet
Gabriele d'Annunzio
led around 2,600 troops from the
Royal Italian Army
(the
Granatieri di Sardegna
), nationalists and irredentists, into a seizure of the city, forcing the withdrawal of the inter-Allied (American, British and French) occupying forces.
The "mutilated victory" (
vittoria mutilata
) became an important part of
Italian fascist
propaganda.
Japan
[
edit
]
Because of the treaty that Japan had signed with Great Britain in 1902, Japan was one of the Allies during the war. With British assistance, Japanese forces attacked Germany's territories in
Shandong
, China, including the East Asian coaling base of the
Imperial German Navy
. The German forces were defeated and surrendered to Japan in November 1914. The Japanese navy also succeeded in seizing several of Germany's island possessions in the western Pacific: the
Carolines
, the
Mariana Islands
, and the
Marshall Islands
.
At the
Paris Peace Conference in 1919
, Japan was granted all of Germany's pre-war rights in
Shandong Province
in China (despite China also being one of the Allies during the war): outright possession of the territory of
Jiaozhou Bay
, and favorable commercial rights throughout the rest of the province, as well as the
South Seas Mandate
over the German Pacific island possessions that the
Imperial Japanese Navy
had taken. Also, Japan was granted a permanent seat on the
Council of the League of Nations
. Nevertheless, the Western powers refused Japan's request for the inclusion of a
"racial equality" clause
as part of the Treaty of Versailles. Shandong reverted to Chinese control in 1922 after mediation by the United States during the
Washington Naval Conference
.
Weihai
followed in 1930.
[59]
United States
[
edit
]
While disillusioned by the war, it having not achieved the high ideals promised by President
Woodrow Wilson
, American
commercial interests
did finance Europe's rebuilding and reparation efforts in Germany, at least until the onset of the
Great Depression
. American opinion on the propriety of providing aid to Germans and Austrians was split, as evidenced by an exchange of correspondence between
Edgar Gott
, an executive with
The Boeing Company
and Charles Osner, chairman of the Committee for the Relief of Destitute Women and Children in Germany and Austria. Gott argued that relief should first go to citizens of countries that had suffered at the hands of the
Central Powers
, while Osner made an appeal for a more universal application of humanitarian ideals.
[60]
The American economic influence allowed the
Great Depression
to start a
domino effect
, pulling Europe in as well.
Territorial gains and losses
[
edit
]
Countries that gained or regained territory or independence after World War I
[
edit
]
-
Armenia
: independence from
Russian Empire
-
Australia
: gained control of
German New Guinea
, the
Bismarck Archipelago
and
Nauru
-
Austria
: gained territories (
?rvidek
) from
Hungary
-
Azerbaijan
: independence from
Russian Empire
-
Belgium
: gained control of
Eupen-Malmedy
and the
African
territories of
Ruanda-Urundi
from the German Empire
-
Belarusian People's Republic
: gained control of several cities from the Russian Empire
-
Czechoslovakia
: gained territories from the
Austrian Empire
(
Bohemia
,
Moravia
, and part of
Silesia
) and
Hungary
(mostly
Upper Hungary
and
Carpathian Ruthenia
)
-
Danzig
:
semi-autonomous free city
with independence from the
German Empire
-
Denmark
: gained
Nordschleswig
after the
1920 Schleswig plebiscites
from the German Empire
-
Estonia
: independence from the
Russian Empire
-
Finland
: independence from the Russian Empire
-
France
: gained
Alsace-Lorraine
as well as various
African
colonies from the German Empire, and
Middle East
territories from the
Ottoman Empire
. The African and Middle East gains were officially
League of Nations
Mandates.
-
Georgia
: independence from the Russian Empire
-
Greece
: gained
Western Thrace
from
Bulgaria
-
Ireland
:
Irish Free State
(approximately five-sixths of
the island
) gained independence from the
United Kingdom
(but still part of the
British Empire
as a
Dominion
)
-
Italy
: gained
South Tyrol
,
Trieste
,
Istria
, and
Zadar
from the Austro-Hungarian Empire
-
Japan
: gained
Jiaozhou Bay
and most of the
Shandong Peninsula
from China and the
South Seas Mandate
(both controlled by German Empire before the war)
-
Latvia
: independence from the Russian Empire
-
Lithuania
: independence from the Russian Empire
-
New Zealand
: gained control of
German Samoa
-
Poland
: recreated and gained parts of the
Austrian Empire
,
German Empire
, Russian Empire and
Hungary
(small northern parts of the former
Arva
and
Szepes
counties)
-
Portugal
: gained control of the port of
Kionga
-
Romania
: gained
Transylvania
, parts of
Banat
,
Cri?ana
, and
Maramure?
from the Kingdom of Hungary, Bukovina from the Austrian Empire, regained Dobruja from Bulgaria, and Bessarabia from the Russian Empire
-
South Africa
: gained control of
South West Africa
-
Turkey
: gained control of part of the
Armenian Highlands
from the Russian Empire in the
Treaty of Kars
, while losing territory overall
-
Ukrainian People's Republic
: gained independence from the Russian Empire and recognized by
Soviet Russia
in the
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
-
United Kingdom
: gained League of Nations Mandates in Africa and the Middle East
-
Yugoslavia
: created from the
Kingdom of Serbia
,
Bosnia and Herzegovina
,
Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia
and gained parts from
Austrian Empire
(part of
Duchy of Carniola
,
Austrian Littoral
,
Kingdom of Dalmatia
) and
Hungary
(
Murakoz
,
Muravidek
, parts of
Baranya
,
Bacska
and
Banat
)
Nations that lost territory or independence after World War I
[
edit
]
Social trauma
[
edit
]
The experiences of the war in the west are commonly assumed to have led to a sort of collective
national trauma
afterward for all of the participating countries. The optimism of
1900
was entirely gone and those who fought became what is known as "the
Lost Generation
" because they never fully recovered from their suffering. For the next few years, much of Europe mourned privately and publicly; memorials were erected in thousands of villages and towns.
So many British men of marriageable age died or were injured that the students of one girls' school were warned that only 10% would marry.
[61]
: 20, 245
The
1921 United Kingdom census
found 19,803,022 women and 18,082,220 men in
England and Wales
, a difference of 1.72 million which newspapers called the "Surplus Two Million".
[61]
: 22?23
In the 1921 census there were 1,209 single women aged 25 to 29 for every 1,000 men. In 1931 50% were still single, and 35% of them did not marry while still able to bear children.
[
citation needed
]
As early as 1923,
Stanley Baldwin
recognized a new strategic reality that faced Britain in a disarmament speech.
Poison gas
and the
aerial bombing
of civilians were new developments of the First World War. The British civilian population, for many centuries, had not had any serious reason to fear invasion. So the new threat of poison gas dropped from enemy
bomber aircraft
excited a grossly exaggerated view of the civilian deaths that would occur on the outbreak of any future war. Baldwin expressed this in his statement that "
The bomber will always get through
." The traditional British policy of a balance of power in Europe no longer safeguarded the British home population.
One gruesome reminder of the sacrifices of the generation was the fact that this was one of the first times in international conflict whereby more men died in battle than from disease, which was the main cause of deaths in most previous wars.
This social trauma made itself manifest in many different ways. Some people were revolted by
nationalism
and what they believed it had caused, so they began to work toward a more
internationalist
world through organizations such as the League of Nations.
Pacifism
became increasingly popular. Others had the opposite reaction, feeling that only military strength could be relied upon for protection in a chaotic and inhumane world that did not respect hypothetical notions of civilization. Certainly a sense of disillusionment and
cynicism
became pronounced.
Nihilism
grew in popularity. Many people believed that the war heralded the end of the world as they had known it, including the collapse of
capitalism
and
imperialism
.
Communist
and
socialist
movements around the world drew strength from this theory, enjoying a level of popularity they had never known before. These feelings were most pronounced in areas directly or particularly harshly affected by the war, such as central Europe, Russia and France.
Artists such as
Otto Dix
,
George Grosz
,
Ernst Barlach
, and
Kathe Kollwitz
represented their experiences, or those of their society, in blunt paintings and sculpture. Similarly, authors such as
Erich Maria Remarque
wrote grim novels detailing their experiences. These works had a strong impact on society, causing a great deal of controversy and highlighting conflicting interpretations of the war. In Germany,
German nationalists
including the
Nazis
believed that much of this work was
degenerate
and undermined the cohesion of society as well as dishonoring the dead.
Economic consequences
[
edit
]
The war left allied countries overburdened with debt to the United States, and the wrecked German economy wasn't able to pay reparations except when loaned by American banks. Many wished to restore the
gold standard
despite opinions that would hurt their economies.
After the war, governments didn't return to the policies of the
First globalization
, instead erecting
capital controls
and trade barriers, and new borders didn't help. Introduced as a temporary war measure,
passport
control hindered economic migration and prevented equalizing labor costs in poor and developed countries, with the latter declaring they wish to abolish any restrictions but not actually wanting their workers to compete with emigrants.
The end of the first total, global war, met world industry with a massive overcapacity for military and military-related production (as well as military surpluses) such as aviation engines and stimulated research in how to adapt it to the peaceful life. For example,
nitrocellulose lacquers
were commercialized after it was invented how to decrease velocity of the substance formerly produced for gunpowder. Many companies specializing in the affected industries went out of business. Some industries, such as shipbuilding, were initially flooded with reconstruction orders, e. g. to replace lost shipping, but faltered as soon as the demand returned to normal levels.
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Remains of ammunition
[
edit
]
Throughout the areas where trenches and fighting lines were located, such as the
Champagne
region of France, quantities of
unexploded ordnance
have remained, some of which remain dangerous, continuing to cause injuries and occasional fatalities in the 21st century. Some are found by farmers ploughing their fields and have been called the
iron harvest
. Some of this ammunition contains
toxic chemical products
such as
mustard gas
. Cleanup of major battlefields is a continuing task with no end in sight for decades to come. Squads remove, defuse or destroy hundreds of tons of unexploded ammunition from both World Wars every year in Belgium, France, and Germany.
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Memorials
[
edit
]
War memorials
[
edit
]
Many towns in the participating countries have
war memorials
dedicated to local residents who died. Examples include:
- Australian War Memorial
,
Canberra
, Australia
- Liberty Memorial
,
Kansas City, Missouri
, United States
- Memorial for The Battle of Jutland
,
Thyborøn
,
Jutland
, Denmark
- District of Columbia War Memorial
,
Washington, D.C.
, United States
- Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial
- The Cenotaph
, London, United Kingdom
- Menin Gate Memorial
,
Ypres
, Belgium
- Thiepval Memorial
- Tyne Cot Memorial to the Missing
at
Passchendaele
- Verdun Memorial Museum
- Vimy Ridge Memorial
,
Vimy
, France
- Gallipoli Memorial
, Turkey
- Shrine of Remembrance
,
Melbourne
, Australia
- Irish National War Memorial Gardens
,
Dublin
, Ireland
- Island of Ireland Peace Park
,
Messines
, Belgium
- National War Memorial
,
Ottawa, Ontario
, Canada
- National War Memorial
,
St. John's, Newfoundland
, Canada
- Kriegerdenkmal auf dem Neroberg,
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Wiesbaden
, Hessen, Germany
- Sacrario militare di Redipuglia, Fogliano Redipuglia
, Italy
- Mausoleum of M?r??e?ti
, Romania
Tombs of unknown soldiers
[
edit
]
- Monument to the Unknown Hero
,
Belgrade
, Serbia
- Amar Jawan Jyoti
,
New Delhi
, India
- Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
,
Ottawa, Ontario
, Canada
- Arc de Triomphe
, Paris, France
- The Tomb of the Unknown Warrior
in
Westminster Abbey
, London, United Kingdom
- Tomb of the Unknowns
,
Arlington National Cemetery
,
Virginia
, United States
- Tomba del milite ignoto
, Rome, Italy
- Australian War Memorial
,
Canberra
, Australia
- New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior
,
Wellington
, New Zealand
- Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
,
Syntagma Square
,
Athens
, Greece
- Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
,
Bucharest
, Romania
- Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
in
Batalha Monastery
,
Batalha
, Portugal
- Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Warsaw
,
Poland
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[
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]
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Europe's third world: the European periphery in the interwar years
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Fracture: Life and Culture in the West, 1918?1938
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Writing the Great War - The Historiography of World War I from 1918 to the Present
free download
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online
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The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End
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Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War
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Dark continent: Europe's twentieth century
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The New Cambridge Modern History, Vol. 12: The Shifting Balance of World Forces, 1898?1945
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The Inter-War Crisis
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The Reign of King George V
online
550pp; wide ranging political, social and economic coverage of Britain, 1910?35
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The Wreck of Reparations, being the political background of the Lausanne Agreement, 1932
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