HIST103: World History in the Early Modern and Modern Eras (1600-Present)

7.1: The Interwar Years, 1918-1938

• World History: "Chapters 24-27"

  Read chapters 24-27, from the effects of the first World War to the rise of dictatorship and totalitarianism.

• European History: "Chapter 13, Europe: 1918-1945"

  Read this chapter.

• 7.1.1: Social and Political Impact of World War I

  • Effects of the First World War

    Read this article, which gives an overview of the economic, political, and social events of the Interwar Period.
    

  • The European Economy in the Interwar Period

    Read this article, which gives an overview of the economic effects of the First World War.
    

• 7.1.2: Economic Depression

  • Kagan, Ozment, and Turner's "The Western Heritage, Chapter 28: Europe and the Great Depression of the 1930s"

    Read this brief overview.

  • International World History Project: Dr. Michael Adas' "One-Half Century of Crisis, 1914-1945"

    Read this article.

  • European History: "The End of Optimism? The Great Depression in Europe"

    Read the Introduction and the "Context" section.

• 7.1.3: Experiments with Liberal Democracy

  • Colby College: Raffael Scheck's "Germany and Europe, 1871-1945"

    • The Treaty of Versailles
    • Germany's First Democratic Constitution
    • The Republic Besieged, 1918-1923
    • Chronology, 1920-1929
    • Weimar Culture
      

    Read these articles. Raffael Scheck of Colby College created this virtual textbook, which was also expanded on and published in print by Berg Publishers in Oxford. This portion of the online textbook gives an overview of the Weimar Republic, which was the given name for the parliamentary republic, established in Germany in 1919, that succeeded the imperial government.