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The Press and Popular Culture in Interwar Europe (2015) Overy, R. J. The Inter-War Crisis 1919–1939 (2nd ed. 2007) Rothschild, Joseph. East Central Europe Between the Two World Wars (U of Washington Press, 2017). Seton-Watson, Hugh. (1945) Eastern Europe Between The Wars 1918–1941 (1945) online; Somervell, D.C. (1936).
1918–1919: Lithuanian–Soviet War; 1919: Lithuanian War of Independence (War against the Bermontians) 1920: Polish–Lithuanian War; 1919–1921: Polish–Soviet War; 1921: Georgian–Russian War; 1924: Georgian Uprising against Soviet Union; 1919–1920: Revolutions and interventions in Hungary (1918–20) 1918–1919: Hungarian–Romanian War
1919–1922 — The Treaty of Versailles divides Germany's African colonies into mandates of the victors (which largely become new colonies of the victors). Most of Cameroon becomes a French mandate with a small portion taken by the British and some territory incorporated into France's previously existing colonies; Togo is mostly taken by the British, though the French gain a slim portion ...
Graph of global conflict deaths from 1900 to 1944 from various sources. This is a list of wars that began between 1900 and 1944.. This period saw the outbreak of World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945), which are among the deadliest conflicts in human history, with many of the world's great powers partaking in total war and some partaking in genocides.
Location: Europe, Africa, Asia, Middle East, the Pacific Islands, and coast of North and South America. Allied Powers. France British Empire United Kingdom Canada Newfoundland Australia New Zealand India South Africa; Russian Empire United States Italy Japan China Serbia Montenegro Romania Belgium Greece Portugal Brazil. Central Powers
Colonial conflicts in Africa brought Britain and France to a major crisis: the Fashoda crisis of 1898 brought Britain and France to the brink of war and ended with a humiliation of France that left it hostile to Britain. By 1892 Russia was the only opportunity for France to break out of its diplomatic isolation.
The exceptions included the Russian Civil War of 1917–1922, Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921, the Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922, and some civil wars, such as in Ireland. Instead, the ideals of peace is a theme that dominated the international agenda of all major nations in the 1920s.
The Conference formally opened on 18 January 1919 at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris. [4] [5] This date was symbolic, as it was the anniversary of the proclamation of William I as German Emperor in 1871, in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles, shortly before the end of the Siege of Paris [6] – a day itself imbued with significance in Germany, as the anniversary of the establishment of ...