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Interwar period
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- The old international order was destroyed after World War I, and a new one was established when Europe had been reorganized. The Great War left its economic and social effects on the European countries that had participated in it.
- The League of Nations was an attempt to end the pattern of conventional power politics and bring about an open and cooperative platform for discussing international relations in the interest of peace and stability. The League of Nations, however, was a fruitless effort.
- The extreme nature of these fundamentally opposed ideas transformed European politics into a scene for violent confrontation. When Adolf Hitler’s authoritarian Nazi Party took control of Germany in the 1930s, it once again prepared to wage war on Europe.
The road to World War II was clear since both Britain and France were preoccupied with internal issues.
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Europe after World War II
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The expansionist policies of Hitler and Mussolini were one of the primary causes of World War II. The war caused the redrawing of country borders, especially in Europe.
- After the devastation caused by the war, the nations that fought in them placed a high priority on domestically reorganizing.
- The border of Poland changed completely and a decision was taken at the Potsdam Conference held in 1945.
- The Prussian Kingdom fell apart. It was absorbed into Germany. Later Germany was split into two parts: East Germany and West Germany. The Soviet Union was in charge of East Germany. It was transformed into a communist nation. A republic existed in West Germany also known as the Non-Communist West.
- The Baltic nations and portions of Czechoslovakia and Romania were seized by Russia.
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