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History of Europe - Prewar Period, WWI, WWII: The same universal aggressiveness was to have its field day in the coming war of nations, but in the intervening decade (1905–14) occurred the remarkable outburst of a creativeness, which, for the first time since 1789, had its source elsewhere than in Romanticism.
Pre-war or prewar (Latin: antebellum) is the period before the most recent or significant war in a culture's history, and may refer to: Prior to World War I; Prior to World War II, last part of the interwar period; Pre-war architecture, buildings from the 20th century before World War II
During the two and a half years leading up to America’s entry into World War I, … Several distinct cultural, political, and class-based groups organized paramilit…
In the last few pre-war years, Nazi Germany blazed the path to conflict -- rearming, signing a non-aggression treaty with the USSR, annexing Austria, and invading Czechoslovakia.
This timeline of events preceding World War II covers the events (mostly during the interwar period [1918–1939] after World War I) that affected or led to World War II.
Germany, Britain, and France, beleaguered by growing socialist gains that frightened a conservative leadership and urged on by intense popular nationalism, also accepted war not only as a diplomatic tool but also as a means of countering internal disarray.
From 1899 to 1905 a fairly coherent coalition of left-wing and centre parties (the so-called Bloc Républicain) provided France with stable government.
Britain before World War I had enjoyed almost a century of unparalleled peace and prosperity. Despite the rapid advances of the United States and Germany, Great Britain remained the most technologically advanced nation on Earth, the crucible of the Industrial Revolution, the source of the greatest inventions of the age.