The Inter-War Period

The Inter-War period is the time between the First and Second World Wars. It was a great time to be alive being marked by economic expansion, hot jazz music, art deco, women's sufferage and cinema. But then someone realized that tho be an Inter-War period they were going to have to have another war. This made everyone very depressed - indeed the period was called the 'Great Depression.' People set about electing governments that were crazy enough to start a war (Hitler, Mussolini etc.) or ineffectual enough to let it happen (Chamberlain, Roosevelt etc.) and so people stopped spending their money on surrealist paintings and started wrecking their economies to the point where a war might seem like an improvement.