In the 20th centuries life in Paris was hard. It started after the First World War ended in November 1918, to jubilation and profound relief in Paris. Unemployment...
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Interwar period (redirect from Between the wars)
In the history of the 20th century, the interwar period (or interbellum) lasted from 11 November 1918 to 1 September 1939 (20 years, 9 months, 21 days)...
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Peter D. ed. Poland Between the Wars, 1918-1939 (1998) essays by scholars Watt, Richard M. Bitter Glory: Poland and Its Fate, 1918-1939 (1998), comprehensive...
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Restaurant Larue, and the Stork Club. 1920s Berlin Années folles Golden Twenties Jazz Age Paris between the Wars (1918–1939) Roaring Twenties Jet set...
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Declaration of war Neville Chamberlain announces war with Germany, 3 September 1939. Problems playing this file? See media help. On 3 September 1939, the United...
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World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies...
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7 October 1918 and 6 October 1939. The state was established in the final stage of World War I. The Second Republic ceased to exist in 1939, after Poland...
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Between the Wars is the thirteenth studio album by Al Stewart, recorded with Laurence Juber. Its major theme is the period "between the wars", from 1918...
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several of which were used to bombard Paris during World War I. They were in service from March to August 1918. When the guns were first employed, Parisians...
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Invasion of Poland (redirect from The Defensive War of 1939)
World War II. The German invasion began on 1 September 1939, one week after the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact between Germany and the Soviet...
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between Poland and Czechoslovakia began in 1918 between the Second Polish Republic and First Czechoslovak Republic, both freshly created states. The conflicts...
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First Czechoslovak Republic (redirect from Czechoslovak Republic (1918-1939))
the rest of Czechoslovakia in March 1939. The independence of Czechoslovakia was proclaimed on 28 October 1918 by the Czechoslovak National Council in Prague...
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Between Wars is an Australian 1974 drama/war film released on 15 November 1974. It was directed by Michael Thornhill and written by Frank Moorhouse. The...
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Dietrich von Choltitz (redirect from Saviour of Paris)
as the Saviour of Paris, he served in the Wehrmacht (armed forces) of Nazi Germany during World War II, as well as serving in the Reichswehr of the Weimar...
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The Winter War was a war between the Soviet Union and Finland. It began with a Soviet invasion of Finland on 30 November 1939, three months after the...
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Caucasus campaign (redirect from Russo-Turkish War, 1914-1918)
drawn from the Mesopotamian and Western Fronts. On March 3, 1918, the campaign had terminated between the Ottoman Empire and Russia with the Treaty of...
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World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers...
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Spanish flu (redirect from 1918 swine flu outbreak in the United Kingdom)
The 1918–1920 flu pandemic, also known as the Great Influenza epidemic or by the common misnomer Spanish flu, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza...
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rearmament as another world war increasingly loomed. There were no great wars in the 1920s. There were a few small wars on the periphery that generally ended...
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of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro) and Aristide Maillol. The Golden Age of the School of Paris ended between the two world wars. The Louvre received...
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The Polish–Ukrainian War, from November 1918 to July 1919, was a conflict between the Second Polish Republic and Ukrainian forces (both the West Ukrainian...
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History of Albania (redirect from Albania between wars)
clashed with the Romans and initiated the Illyrian Wars. These wars, which were spread out over 60 years, eventually resulted in defeat for the Illyrians...
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Czechoslovakia. (1955–1960) War flag of Czechoslovakia. (1960–1990) Flag of the Czechoslovak National Council in Paris (1916–1918) Original proposed flag...
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end of World War II. Following the German–Soviet non-aggression pact, Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany on 1 September 1939 and by the Soviet Union on...
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1914–1918. Tome 1: L'Artillerie de Campagne. Paris: Histoire et Collections. ISBN 978-2-35250-022-3. Simkins, Peter (2013). The First World War: the war to...
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War II covers the events (mostly during the interwar period [1918–1939] after World War I) that affected or led to World War II. 1910s: 1910 · 1918 ·...
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Polish Corridor (redirect from Corridor to the Sea)
succession wars between Poland and Brandenburg, Pomerelia was subjugated by the Monastic state of the Teutonic Knights in Prussia. In 1466, with the second...
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World War I (1914–1918), belligerents from both the Allied Powers and Central Powers violated international criminal law, committing numerous war crimes...
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Pact changed the borders agreed after the Paris Peace Conference (1919–1920), and was signed on August 23, 1939. One week later, World War II started with...
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wars involving Scotland. To see wars that have been fought on the United Kingdom mainland, see the list of wars in Great Britain. Historically, the United...
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