Between WW1 and WW2
Between the Wars After WWI global problems still remained Treaty of Versailles punished Germany and made them bitter League of Nations had little power Old empires collapsed New nations came into being Nationalism continued to cause conflict Worldwide depression Fascism, new kind of dictatorship, arose in Italy and Germany New European Countries Both the Ottoman and the Austro-Hungarian empires collapsed after World War I Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Austria, and Hungary became new nations formed out of the old empires Worldwide Depression After WWI, economic problems emerged in Europe Returning soldiers needed jobs Nations had war debts to pay Cities had to be rebuilt