CONTENTS ENY INTRODUCTION The last War CHAPTER 1 Post WWI Treaties 10 S CHAPTER 2 Political shifts Post WWI 20 CHAPTER 3 The Great Depression and Global Economic Decline 28 CHAPTER 4 Invasions and Occupations 32 CHAPTER 5 Pacts and Alliances 40 CONCLUSION The Long Road to War 42 FURTHER READING AND WEBSITES 45 GLOSSARY 46 INDEX 48
THE LAST WAR In 1918 World War I then called the Great War came to an end The victors were an alliance of countries known as the Allied powers also called the Triple Entente It included British Empire French Republic and the Russian Empire along with other allies such as Italy Japan and the United States The Axis powers also known as the Central Powers had been defeated They were an alliance of countries that included Germany Austria Hungary Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire BELOW Germany stopped fighting on November 11 1918 and accepted defeat GA ED cERMANY CERMANY RENOER PRENDER PA GERMANY SURRENDERS GERMANY SLUIRRENDER
t Aut IIIIIIIII trip ABOVE The American Memorial at the cemetery at Flanders Field in Belgium honors the soldiers who died fighting in World War I THE LEGACY OF WWI After four years of bombings much of began a policy of rationing This made Europe had been destroyed Manv of sure all citizens received only a small the buildings in famous cities such as amount of food each day to keep the London and Paris lay in pieces Many nation from running out of food roads and had been bridges damaged In Austria Hungary alone nearly and farmland across the continent had two million people had been left been torn up homeless because of the war Worst In some countries such as Britain food of all an estimated 37 million people was so scarce that the government worldwide had been
