Question

How much kf the crisis of the interwar period can be attributed to the effects of the First World War?

Answer 1

The inter war years refers to the pivotal twenty years that fell between the end of the first world war and the second world war.

The effects of world war one were profound for Europe. Ten million were killed and twice that number wounded in what has been dubbed the first modern war.

All of the wars of hundred years leading upto world war one had claimed a total of only four and one half million lives. During the great war , the French averaged a death each minute. The destruction in Europe left many of those lucky enough to survive psychologically scared.

The diplomatic results of the furst world war greatly determined the nature of European affairs during the inter war years.

Some new states were not in an economically viable condition due to destruction of war amd past reliance on the economies of empires.

Some countries, unused to democracy and independence and many were divided internally by factions and antagonistic ethnic groups.

Moreover, rise of radical political groups meant a wider spectrum of political ideologies clamouring for acceptance. The ideologies of both facism and communism attracted more followers during the inter war years than ever before.

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