Between 2 Wars
A historical journey from 1919 to 1939 through years of dawn, light, and dusk back into the darkness of war.
Episodes
After the War to End All Wars, there's more of two things. More nations and more wars. Wars of independence, civil wars, ethnic wars, ideological wars...
As World War One ends the dying takes on new proportions when the Spanish Flu ravages the world. A whole generation of young people that should be sta...
The year 1919 was the year when the world took the first step into the age of mass communication. Wartime developments now create the aviation industr...
On what was only recently the Eastern Front of World War One there is no end to war. Russia is at war with itself while it tries to reconquer the form...
The Paris Peace Conference gets underway while the world continues to go up in flames. In 1919 it seems like every corner of the world is plagued by r...
The fledgling democracy in Germany struggles to survive as the German Revolution escalates into a downright civil war. In one of the German States Bav...
In 1920 the Bolshevik Russian Red army has more or less routed the Russian counter revolutionary White Armies. Their attention now turns to the West....
Germany is usually associated with the rise of right wing extremism in the interwar years, but in 1920 almost the entire German citizenry unites to st...
In 1920, the colonial powers of the British Empire and France reverse course on their commitment to grant independence to the peoples of the Middle Ea...
When many of the fighting men of The Great War return home addicted to drugs and infected with venereal disease, their sweethearts have decided that i...
After an unpopular war and facing unrest at home, the US returns to isolationism after half a century of gradually opening up to the world. On the hom...
In 1921 the Second Polish Republic expands to the borders it will have until it is overrun by the Germans and Soviets in September of 1939. Through co...
In 1922, when Italy is in political chaos, reeling from the effects of The Great War and labour unrest, one man makes a violent grab for power. He is...
When the Ottoman empire is torn apart by the Treaty of Sevres, ethnic conflicts in the old empire that have been boiling for almost a century lead to...
When Germany spirals into hyperinflation and the French occupy the Ruhr, Adolf Hitler and Erich Ludendorff make a grab for power.
As Lenin's health starts to fail, the struggle to become his successor picks up speed with Stalin maneuvering closer and closer to power. The outcome...
The 19th century throws all kinds of terror and unfortune on China, which not long before was the most powerful nation in the world. While many other...
One man tries to reunite China, he is Sun Yat Sen but he shall not see his work come to fruition.
Modernization caused a communication revolution in the 1920's with the mass adaptation of the Radio, with all sorts concequences for the entertainment...
The rise of the media superstar and the rise of Naziism had a lot to do with each other. The early death of one of the first media superstars, Rudolph...
In 1926 Chiang Kai-shek manages to turn the Kuomintang into his own private army, and the events are befuddling...
In 1927 the US is finally back to it's pre-WWI economic greatness, at least measured by the stock market. But all is not well with the finances in the...
With thousands of planes left over from World War One, hobby pilots and entrepreneurs set out to create the modern airline industry. Charles Lindbergh...
As the world's economy gains momentum in the second half of the 1920s, Germany, contrary to popular belief, rides the boom along with it - these are t...
In 1929 it's been nothing but growth for the US economy for years, at least if you judge by the New York Stock Exchange. But all that glitters is not...
Created from the ashes of the First World War, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes faces major problems.
As 1929 approaches, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes spirals closer and closer to collapse. When the parliament descends into murderous chaos...
After the Great War, the British empire is at its peak in terms of population and size. However, resistance against colonialism is starting to brew in...
When Mussolini wants to solidify Italy's North African Colonies, he faces massive opposition by one man- Omar Mukhtar, the Lion of the Desert.
In Japan, there has been a gradual increase of militarism since The Great War and in 1931 the country goes to war again when they Invade Chinese Manch...
The episode explores how the cancellation of war reparations, rather than reparations themselves, became a critical catalyst for Nazi rise. It argues...
Stalin has to deal with the consequences of forcibly changing the Soviet Union from an agrarian economy into a modern industrialized society as his fi...
After Chancellor Brüning has run Germany's economy into the ground, the country is once again going to the polls. It's a wild brawl between reason and...
What do you get when you combine vigorous grain-tax policies, bad harvests with Stalins fear and animosity for the rural population of Ukraine? A man-...
Democracy finds itself in a crisis as the 1930s take off. On a global scale, Fascist or otherwise authoritarian and repressive movements and governmen...
Hitlers rise to power, also known as the Machtergreifung, was riddled with physical and mental manipulation, political games and an exploitation of th...
The American economy is in a state of despair. Mass unemployment and poverty sweep the lands. In 1933, a new President is elected, promising to change...
America is very unprepared for rising tensions in The Pacific and Europe. US President Franklin Roosevelt tries his best to re-arm the American Army a...
After Hitler seized power in Germany in January 1933, he rapidly transformed the Democratic Weimar Republic into a repressive, totalitarian and racist...
Austria is very divided in the 1930s. Austrian Nationalism opposes the idea of a Greater German Reich, which triggers the emergence of Austrofascism....
King Aleksandar has been working to forge a single Yugoslav identity in his troubled Balkan state. But ethnic nationalism still runs strong, and a sha...
In February 1934, France threatens to go down the same political rabbit hole as Germany: anti-Semitic Fascism, but the French extremists are not quite...
Czechoslovakia is holding on to democracy by a thread. It even looks like they might be able to integrate the German Czechoslovakians, but Hitler's ri...
The Second Polish Republic emerged victorious from the Polish-Soviet War in 1921. But the shine of independence is quickly rubbing off as the new stat...
From 1927 to 1934, the Chinese Communists lived in a state within the National Chinese State led by Chiang Kai-Shek. In 1935, the Nationalists strike...
The episode examines how most of Africa was colonized by European powers during the scramble, yet the Kingdom of Abyssinia managed to remain independe...
After more than twenty years of colonial management, promises made but few promises kept and ethnic & cultural clashes in the area, unrest in the midd...
Spain in the early 1930's was practically Europe in Microcosm, with numerous political and ideological movements clashing in debate and open battles o...
1937 marks the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War. And wether or not this is the 'actual' starting point of World War Two, it definitely was a...
The Nazi economy appears to do well during the 1930s. But this is largely myth, as the German economy under Hitler is based on a self destructive, ide...
With the increasing aggression of Italy, Japan, and Germany in the 1930s, the League of Nations is becoming increasingly ineffective in regulating int...
Under the yoke of economic depression and more and more authoritarian rulers, Western women face renewed misogyny, patriarchy, and decreasing independ...
After years of gradually increasing persecution, the Nazi's institute a nationwide pogrom on the night of November 9, 1938. It will signal the end of...
E55. Stalin's Paranoid Military Purges - The Great Terror | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1938 Part 4 of 4
20 min
In 1938, Stalin has his military leadership purged, and has thousands of his comrades killed or locked up. The reasons as to why he did it are still o...
After years of political violence and strife, a military coup in 1936 finally brings Spain into all-out civil war. Mass executions and revolutionary u...
E57. A Soviet-Nazi Alliance - The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1939 Part 2 of 3
30 min
In 1939, two bitter rivals sign a non-aggression pact. But the treaty is something more than just a simple pledge of neutrality. Nazi Germany and the...
In this final episode of Season 1 of Between Two Wars we examine what caused the world to stand on the brink of total war in just two decades after th...
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