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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.
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- Jennifer Rosenberg
- Section 1: After World War I
- Section 2: A Changed World
- Section 3: The Great Depression
- Section 4: Technological Advances
- Section 5: Culture
The end of World War Idid not bring an end to tragedy. By a dreadful irony, just as the carnage of World War I was coming to an end, a world-wide pandemic called the Spanish Flu broke out. This killed between 50 and 100 million people, far more than the war had done. More ironic still, it disproportionately targeted young adults – the very age grou...
The United States in the 1920s
The United States had played a decisive role in the Allied victory in World War I, and, with the largest economy in the world, replaced Britain as the leading nation in the world – despite the fact that it declined to exercise its power on the international stage. In contrast to almost all other nations which had been involved in the war, the USA experienced a high degree of prosperity in the early 1920s, and Canadasoon caught up.
The Soviet Union
The people of this, the largest country on earth, almost certainly suffered more misery than any other nation during the 1920s and 30s, excepting possible the people of China (see below). After Lenin’s death in 1924, Joseph Stalinhad risen to supreme power – which he had achieved by 1927. He set about the forced collectivization and industrialization of his massive country, which caused hardship and loss of life on an immense scale. Most notably, millions died in famines in 1932-33 which were...
The League of Nations
The Paris peace conference (see above) brought into being a new international organization, the League of Nations. This had as its aim the safeguarding of international peace by creating a forum in which issues between nations could be settled without recourse to war. The statesman who had worked most tirelessly for the creation of such a body was the president of the United States, Woodrow Wilson. However, the American people reverted to their traditional isolationismafter the war, and that...
The Wall Street Crash and its Aftermath
In October 1929, the booming American stock market crashed (an event known as the Wall Street Crash, as Wall Street, in New York, is the epicenter of the US finance industry). Stocks plummeted, there was a run on the banks, businesses went bankrupt, and millions of American workers soon found themselves unemployed. The ripples were very soon traveling around the world, and the same story repeated itself in country after country: business collapsed, economies shrank and masses of workers were...
The Road to War in Europe
By this time, the whole of Europe was rushing towards war.
The Road to War in the Pacific
With the outbreak of World War II in Europe, in September 1939, Roosevelt turned the United States into the “arsenal of democracy”, providing financial aid and much-needed equipment for Britain, and later (after Hitler had reneged on his pact with Stalin in July 1941), Russia.
Transport
Automobiles became much more common during the 1920s, as mass production put them within the reach of millions of families for the first time. This boosted the rise of the suburbs and, in particular, ribbon development of houses along roads to and from towns. It also stimulated the rise of the oil industry, which now consolidated its position as a global force within the world economy. Oil companies extended their operations in the Middle East, and began them in South America. Venezuela was s...
Military technology
Weapons of war also experienced major advances between the wars. In aviation, the slow biplane fighters of World War I gave way to their sleek successors of World War 2, and much larger bombers were developed – in the mid-30s the B-17 was coming into service with the US Air Force. In naval technology, the aircraft carrier, whose development began in World War I, was refined and improved to become the capital ships of World War 2. In land warfare, the tank was developed to such an extent that...
Medicine
The 1920s and 30s saw numerous medical advances. The most famous was undoubtedly the discovery of penicillin by Alexander Fleming in 1928, which would revolutionize medicine during and after World War 2; but other discoveries included vitamin D and insulin. The period also saw the development of vaccines for diphtheria, tuberculosis, tetanus and yellow fever; of chemotherapy and shock therapy, and new techniques in anesthetics and in the treatment of mental diseases, such as electroconvulsive...
Literature
In the 1920s and 30s a long list of well-known writers produced major works of literature. In the English language, the novelists F. Scott Fitzgerald, (The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night), Ernest Hemingway (A Farewell to Arms, To have and Have Not), John Steinbeck (Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men), William Faulkner (The Sound and the Fury), D.H. Lawrence (Women in Love, Lady Chatterley’s Lover), Virginia Woolf (To the Lighthouse, A Room of One’s Own, Orlando), James Joyce (Ulysses), Aldou...
Music
In music, the 20s in particular are known as the “Jazz Age”, when this form became mainstream. Accompanying this was the emergence into wide popularity of dances such as the Charleston. In the 30s, a form of jazz called “Swing” became popular. This was played to a rhythm emphasizing the off-beat, and is associated with Big Bands making a vibrant wall of sound. This was the era of Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Lenny Goodman and Glenn Miller – and their bands. In classical music...
Art
The years between the First and Second World Wars saw modern art continue to develop. At the beginning of the period, immediately after World War I, the Dada movement was prominent, with its rejection of form, rationality, even beauty; it expressed a kind of madness which reflected despair in a society which could bring about such terrible war: the typical image is a collage of bits and pieces of unrelated elements jarring with one another and making little overall sense. Cubism was also flou...
The 1930s were a decade of unmitigated crisis culminating in the outbreak of a second total war. The treaties and settlements of the first postwar era collapsed with shocking suddenness under the impact of the Great Depression and the aggressive revisionism of Japan, Italy, and Germany.
World War II Timeline: 1931-1933. Japan began its World War II offensive in 1931, attacking Manchuria in Northern China and then Chapei in Northern Shanghai in January of 1932. In 1932, Adolf Hitler's gained power as his Nazi party became the largest in Germany.
8 de feb. de 2022 · During the 1930s, the USA ended Prohibition and found itself contending with domestic crime like never before, Europe and Asia were inching ever closer to war. In the east, Japan asserted its dominance, while in the West, the rise of Hitler and the terror of Stalin saw two powerful dictatorships emerge, joining forces as the Second World War began.
9 de may. de 2024 · Spanish Civil War, (1936–39), military revolt against the Republican government of Spain, supported by conservative elements within the country. When an initial military coup failed to win control of the entire country, a bloody civil war ensued, fought with great ferocity on both sides.
