Between the Wars

 

The History Channel - Britain between the WarsSocial History

1920s to 1940s. Life between the Wars in England-With areas on hairdos and fashion.

France between the Wars 1918-39-A timeline

"The Roaring Twenties" - "The 1920's" - Finance, sports, lifestyles and more.

Lecture 8: The Age of Anxiety: Europe in the 1920s (1)

Lecture 9: The Age of Anxiety, Europe in the 1920s (2)

1920s.net: Europe- Covers all of Europe.

BBC - Homes - 1920s- A look at 1920s style.

Baltic countries/1920s

BBC - Paris in the 1920s - Background

BBC - Paris in the 1920s - Music clips

C. Europe, 1919-1945. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History- An overview.

Paris in the 1920s and 1930s- A look at literature.

The Jazz Age in Paris

Berlin in the 1920s

The Suffragettes

                                                 

 
bullet 1926 General Strike in England (Spartacus Site)
bullet The Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives
bullet Adolf Hitler - Biography (Jewish Virtual Library)
bullet The Age of Anxiety:  Europe in the 1920s (1) - from the series "Lectures on 20c Europe"
bullet The Age of Anxiety:  Europe in the 1920s (2) - from the series "Lectures on 20c Europe"  
bullet The Age of Totalitarianism:  Stalin and Hitler - from the series "Lectures on 20c Europe"
bullet The A. J. P. Taylor Thesis on the Origins of World War II
bullet Albert Einstein(biography)
bullet Albert Einstein and the New Physics
bullet Appeasement (Spartacus)
bullet Art Deco (Artcyclopedia) - large list of artists and their works
bullet British House of Commons Election Results:  1832-1983 (Spartacus Site)
bullet Chamberlain and Hitler:  What Was Chamberlain Trying To Do?
bullet Churchill:  The Evidence (The Life & Times of Winston Churchill)
bullet "The Collapse of the Weimar Republic"
bullet "Crisis and War in Europe:  1937-1940"
bullet Dadaism (Artcyclopedia)
bullet Dietrich Bonhoeffer (biography)
bullet "Diplomacy of the Third Reich"
bullet Einstein Revealed (PBS Nova Site)
bullet Emmeline Pankhurst (Spartacus Site)
bullet "Enfranchising Women: The Politics of Women's Suffrage in Europe 1789-1945" - tutorial with documents and other resources
bullet The Ethiopian War: 1935-41 - succinct outline
bullet European Art Deco
bullet The Existential Frame of Mind - from the series "Lectures on 20c Europe"
bullet Expressionism (Artcyclopedia) - large list of artists and their works
bullet Fascism and the Nazis (Spartacus)
bullet Fascism in Italy (BBC)
bullet "From Intervention to Munich:  The Inter-War Years" (The Millennial Files)
bullet George Orwell (Spartacus Site)
bullet George Orwell and the Last Man in Europe - from the series "Lectures on 20c Europe"
bullet German Diplomacy Files Folder Titles List - FDR Library
bullet German Propaganda Archives (Warning--some severe anti-Semitic materials included!)
bullet "Germany, Hitler, and the Prospect for Peace"
bullet "The Great Crash and the Great Slump" - lecture by J. Bradford DeLong (UC Berkeley)
bullet "The Great Depression"
bullet The History of the Swastika
bullet "Hitler and Economic Recovery in Germany"
bullet Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch
bullet The House of Saxe-Coburg-Windsor Genealogical Chart (England)
bullet "The Inter-War Years:  1919-1939"
bullet An Introduction to Bauhaus
bullet Italian Life Under Fascism
bullet "Lights in the Darkness:  Resisters to the Nazi Regime"
bullet Map-->"Europe After the Treaty of Locarno:  1925"
bullet Map-->"The Dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire:  the 1920s
bullet Map-->"The European Democracies:  1919 to the 1930s"
bullet Map-->"Governments During the 1930s" (world map)
bullet Map-->"The Growth of Japan in the 20c"
bullet Map-->"League of Nations: 1920-1946"
bullet Map-->"The Middle East in the 1920s"
bullet Map-->"New Nations After World War I"
bullet Map-->"The Partition of Czechoslovakia"
bullet Map-->"The Peace Settlement in Europe:  1919"
bullet Map-->"Spanish Civil War"
bullet Map-->"Totalitarian Regimes in the 1930s"
bullet Map-->"Zones of Conflict and the Polish Frontier as of 1921"
bullet "Master Race" (PBS)
bullet Nazi and East German Propaganda (German Propaganda Archives)
bullet Nazi and Soviet Art
bullet Nazi Germany (BBC)
bullet Nazi Germany - Picture Gallery
bullet The Nazi Olympics:  Berlin, 1936
bullet Nazi Philatelic and Numismatic Materials
bullet Nazi Posters:  1933-1945
bullet "The Nazi Road to Power"
bullet "The Nazi Seizure of Power"
bullet "The Nazi-Soviet Pact"
bullet Nazi-Soviet Relations:  Documents from 1939 - 1941 (The Avalon Project)
bullet Neville Chamberlain (Spartacus Site)
bullet The Nizkor Project - The Office of Strategic Services - Adolf Hitler Source Book & Psychological Profile
bullet "Nietzsche and Hitler" - from William Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
bullet "The Origins of the Nazi Party"
bullet People of Action During the First Half of the 20c
bullet People of Ideas:  The 1st Half of the 20c
bullet "The Political System of the Third Reich"
bullet The Posters of the Spanish Revolution
bullet "Purges and Hysteria in the Soviet Union"
bullet Ramsey McDonald (Spartacus Site)
bullet Revelations from the Russian Archives
bullet The Rise of Adolph Hitler - book written for The HistoryPlace (24 short chapters)
bullet The Rise of Hitler (BBC)
bullet Salvador Dali Art Gallery
bullet Sir Winston Churchill
bullet The Soviet Union Factbook
bullet Spain, 1931-36; From Monarchy to Civil War- An Eyewitness Account
bullet The Spanish Bourbons:  Genealogical Chart
bullet The Spanish Civil War
bullet Spanish Civil War Oral History Project
bullet The Spanish Revolution
bullet The Spanish Revolution and Civil War
bullet Surrealism (Artcyclopedia)
bullet Then and Now Prices (1930s prices for Common Items)
bullet The Third Reich
bullet The Third Reich Factbook
bullet "Upheaval in Germany, the Peace Treaty, and Imperialism"
bullet The Visual Front:  Posters of the Spanish Civil War
bullet The Wall Street Crash (BBC)
bullet "Weimar Republic:  Economic and Political Problems"
bullet "Weimar Republic:  Foreign Policy Problems"
bullet "Weimar Republic:  The Good Years"
bullet Weimar Republic Links
bullet World War II Timeline:  1917-1945

Primary Sources

bullet 1919-33:  Chart of Elections in Weimar Germany
bullet 1919:  'Equal Pay for Equal Work' : Report of the War Cabinet on Women in Industry (H.M.S.O, 1919), paras. 10 & 11 - Great Britain
bullet 1919:  Hitler's First Anti-Semitic Writing
bullet 1919:  "Post War Employment of Women" - Aberdeen Free Press (2/4)
bullet 1919:  The Constitution of the Weimar Republic
bullet 1920s:  Ink Drawings of George Grosz - click on several of those listed at the bottom
bullet 1920s:  Postage Stamps of the Weimar Republic and chart (at bottom of page) on the value of the Mark
bullet 1920s?:  Program of the National Social German Workers' Party
bullet 1920:  "Comrade Lenin Sweeps the World Clean" - political poster
bullet 1920:  "The Economic Consequences of the Peace" - John Maynard Keynes
bullet 1920:  On European Civilization and the European Mind - Paul Valéry
bullet 1920:  "The Twenty-Five Points" - an early Nazi program
bullet 1921:  The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism - Max Weber
bullet 1922:  American/Anglo Agreement on Palestine
bullet 1922:  British Mandate in Palestine - League of Nations
bullet 1922:  British White Paper on Palestine
bullet 1922:  On Overcoming the Consequences of the Lost War - General Erich Ludendorff
bullet 1922-1940:  Stock Market Chart
bullet 1923:  Entering King Tut's Tomb - Howard Carter
bullet 1923:  My Disillusionment in Russia--Afterward - Emma Goldman     (full text)
bullet 1923:  The Treaty of Lausanne
bullet 1924:  League of Nations Covenant
bullet 1924:  Mein Kampf - Adolph Hitler (full text)
bullet 1924:  "On the Death of Lenin" - Joseph Stalin
bullet 1924:  "Jean Rennie, scullery-maid kitchen-maid and cook-housekeeper"
bullet 1925:  The Discovery of Anti-semitism in Vienna - Adolph Hitler
bullet 1925:  The Geneva Protocol: Poisonous or other Gases, Bacteriological Warfare
bullet 1925:  Hitler on the Discovery of Antisemitism in Vienna
bullet 1925:  A Surrealist Manifesto
bullet 1925:  The Treaty of Locarno
bullet 1926:  The Fascist Symbol (leaflet)
bullet 1927:  Speech at the 1927 Nuremberg Rally - Adolf Hitler
bullet 1927:  We Demand - Joseph Goebbels
bullet 1927-31:  Civilization and Its Discontents - Sigmund Freud
bullet 1928:  Equal Franchise Act (Britain)
bullet 1928:  Kellogg-Briand Pact
bullet 1928:  Knowledge and Propaganda - Joseph Goebbels
bullet 1928:  Why Do We Want to Join the Reichstag? - Joseph Goebbels
bullet 1928-31:  Caricatures from Der Stürmer
bullet 1929:  Der Führer - Joseph Goebbels
bullet 1929:  The Jew - Joseph Goebbels (an early anti-Semitic Nazi piece of propaganda)
bullet 1930:  Briand Plan (5/19)
bullet 1930:  Horst Wessel Song
bullet 1930:  My Life - Leon Trotsky  (entire text)
bullet 1930s:  The Nazi Identification System
bullet 1930s:  Propaganda in Postage Stamps (Nazi Germany) & an additional page
bullet 1931:  "Persistence of Memory" - Surrealist painting by Salvador Dali
bullet 1931:  Statute of Westminster
bullet 1931:  Will and Way - Joseph Goebbels
bullet 1932:  Background to the German Crisis - Franz von Papen
bullet 1932:  The Storm is Coming - Joseph Goebbels
bullet 1932:  "What is Fascism?" - Benito Mussolini
bullet 1933-39:  Several postcards of Nazi Propaganda
bullet 1933:  Hitler's Concordat with the Catholic Church
bullet 1933:  Law for the Protection of Hereditary Health: The Attempt to Improve the German Aryan Breed (Nuremberg Racial Law)
bullet 1933:  Letters on Jews Who Served in German Military - Adolf Hitler and Paul von Hindenberg
bullet 1933:  Nazi Enabling Act
bullet 1933:  Sterilization for 'The Unfit'- The Hitlerian Nightmare Begins
bullet 1933:  "The Structure of the Unconscious" - Sigmund Freud
bullet 1934:  National Socialist Racial Policy:  A Speech to German Women - Dr Walter Gross
bullet 1934:  The Oath to Adolph Hitler - Rudolph Hess
bullet 1934:  Triumph of the Will film clip - Leni Riefenstahl (annual Nazi party Nuremberg rally)
bullet 1934:  Wehrmacht Oath of Loyalty
bullet 1935:  Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor
bullet 1935:  Mussolini Justifies the Invasion of Ethiopia
bullet 1935:  Nuremberg Laws on Citizenship and Race
bullet 1935:  Nuremberg Laws for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor
bullet 1936:  Broadcast After His Abdication - King Edward VIII of England
bullet 1936-39:  Posters of the Spanish Civil War
bullet 1936:  The Rhineland Crisis:  The French Reaction - M. P.-E. Flandin, French Minister of Foreign Affairs
bullet 1936:  The Rhineland Crisis:  The British Reaction - Policy Memorandum of the Foreign Secretary, Anthony Eden
bullet 1936:  Soviet Constitution (full text)   (chart)
bullet 1937:  "Guernica" - painting by Pablo Picasso
bullet 1937:  The Nanking Massacre
bullet 1937:  "On National Socialism and World Relations" - speech by Adolf Hitler
bullet 1937:  "The Ugly Jew" - a piece of Nazi propaganda (book cover)
bullet 1938:  The British Reaction to the German-Austrian Anschluss - Neville Chamberlain
bullet 1938:  Crystal Night at the Dinslaken Orphanage
bullet 1938:  Declaration of members of the historic nobility, delivered 9/17 to President Edvard Benes of Czechoslovakia
bullet 1938:  Krystallnacht Order - Reinhard Heydrich
bullet 1938:  Manifesto of the Racist Scientists
bullet 1938:  Munich Agreement
bullet 1938:  On the Sudetenland Crisis - speech by Adolf Hitler (sound file)
bullet 1938:  "Peace in Our Time" - Neville Chamberlain
bullet 1938:  Time Magazine's "Man of the Year" - Adolf Hitler
bullet 1938:  Why the German Republic Fell - Bruno Heilig
bullet 1939:  Britain's Response to Germany's Invasion of Poland
bullet 1939:  British White Paper on Palestine
bullet 1939:  France's Response to Germany's Invasion of Poland
bullet 1939:  Letter from Hitler to Mussolini (Aug. 25)
bullet 1939:  Letter from Mussolini to Hitler (Aug. 25) - in response
bullet 1939:  Letter to Hitler from President Franklin D. Roosevelt (4/14)
bullet 1939:  Mussolini's Call to Arms
bullet 1939:  Pact of Steel (5/22)
bullet 1939:  Proclamation to the German Army - Adolf Hitler
bullet 1939:  Neville Chamberlain on the Nazi Invasion of Poland
bullet 1939:  Speech to Reichstag - Adolf Hitler (9/1)
bullet 1939:  Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the U. S. S. R.
bullet 1939:  Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the U. S. S. R. - Secret Protocol
bullet 1939:  Western Guarantees of Poland's Independence
bullet 1940:  Membership Qualifications of the Nazi Party