The Disarray of Western Europe, 1918-1929
nIn western Europe in the 1920s, new
and often troubling political, social,
psychological, and economic
patterns arose.
nFascism gained power in Italy and
Germany.
nOver ten million died in the Great
War and millions more were
wounded.
nThe governments of Germany and
Austria-Hungary collapsed.
nWestern Europe’s dominance of world
markets lost ground and fell
behind the United States and
Japan.
