Interwar Years
A Senseless War
Old WWI battlefields became national historical preservation areas
Monuments
Mass Graveyards where thousands of unnamed people are buried
Most nations who participated created a “tomb of the unknown soldier” to remind them of the senselessness of war
The violence of the last war made people of the generation (especially veterans) accustomed to violence, and were therefore thought that this might embody the new way of life.
A Fragile Hope for Peace
America refused to join the league of nations (which it proposed!) and then they withdrew from European affairs
Russia had gone communist and had strained relations with the nations who had not backed them in their revolution
World was in an unstable place, and because of industrialism and the growth of world trade in the last century, nations around the world are more interconnected (a ripple effect).
One of the downsides of globalization
Countries reacted to this in different ways (NOT all in Europe)
A Senseless War
Old WWI battlefields became national historical preservation areas
Monuments
Mass Graveyards where thousands of unnamed people are buried
Most nations who participated created a “tomb of the unknown soldier” to remind them of the senselessness of war
The violence of the last war made people of the generation (especially veterans) accustomed to violence, and were therefore thought that this might embody the new way of life.
A Fragile Hope for Peace
America refused to join the league of nations (which it proposed!) and then they withdrew from European affairs
Russia had gone communist and had strained relations with the nations who had not backed them in their revolution
World was in an unstable place, and because of industrialism and the growth of world trade in the last century, nations around the world are more interconnected (a ripple effect).
One of the downsides of globalization
Countries reacted to this in different ways (NOT all in Europe)
