essay on interwars

The interwar period was between 1918 to1939. It was the time from World War I to World War II. During this period most of the world had a huge 180® turn. Economies went crashing, unemployment was everywhere, alliances were being broken, etc. There were many leaders who tried to control the population of each country. Most of them did some positive changes, but they didn’t turn out so successful at the end.

Britain had a very hard time recovering from World War I. David Lloyd tried to control the country as if it was still in war. The people kept working a large amount of hours and they didn’t get paid as much as they should have. Of course, the people had enough of that and decided to start a strike. The economy went crashing down and had a very negative change. Unemployment was probably the most popular thing because everyone was in it. It was actually pretty rare for people to have a permanent job. UK was not the only one who had a terrible economy. Germany was also part of that. They had a huge amount of debts because according to the Treaty of Versailles Versailles Versailles Versailles had to pay countries like France, who were completely destroyed. Where was Germany supposed to get all this money from? This is when the US kicked in. Investors provided Germany with money. This was going okay until the stock market went down. No money was being provided to Germany nor the United States. In Italy, the people were going crazy since there were a lot of territories promised, but they never got them.

If certain leaders went to different countries, many changes could have occurred. David Lloyd would have been a great leader in Germany during the time in which they didn’t have money. He could have made the people work hard and raise their economy. On the other hand, Hitler would probably had been better in Italy. He controlled the territory of other countries, and what Italians wanted was gain more territory. If Hitler had the control of Italy, he probably would have accomplished their goal and expanded their territories. Another example of dictators that might have worked on other countries is Stalin. The country that I think would have had a great success with him in power is France. If he had the control over that country, their economy wouldn't have depended as much on Germany. They would have been able to set goals and try to accomplish it, which was Stalin's basic idea. Each leader had their qualities that might have helped some countries more than others.

During the interwar period, all countries went through major changes. Some of them were good, but most of them were bad. Maybe, at the time they seemed positive and correct, but at the end, the result wasn't what people expected and it all went down hill. I think that if so many problems wouldn't have began during this period, World War 2 might have not occurred.