The interwar period

The interwar period

The interwar period in the context of history in the 20^th century refers to the period between the end of the First World War in 1919 and the starting of the Second World War in 1938. During this period, it led to significant changes in the world. The interwar years (1919-1939) has a great purpose in the world. Through the modern state system and principles of sovereignty, it began with the sense of idealism, which the modern state system as well as organization principles of sovereignty, which would be modified in mitigating the incidence and the devastation of the international conflict.

In terms of international politics and international conflict, based on optimism and idealism interwar years aimed at the organization of principles of sovereignty and modern state system for mitigation of devastation of international conflict. Modern state system essential stages of the interwar diplomacy and the international relations involved resolutions of the wartime issues and international relations (Omissi, David E, 2017). They included, reparations which were owed by Germany and its bounders, the American involvement in Europe finance and other disarmament efforts which aimed at making responses for the great depression which began in 1929. Interwar years (up to 1939) focused on mitigation of the distrustful relations which existed between the Soviet Union to capitalists world, as well as peace and disarmament efforts.

Further, the interwar years aimed at mitigating and making resolutions on the collapsing of the world trade and collapsing of the democratic regimes one by one. From an idealism perspective, interwar years would help in ensuring there is growth in the efforts of economic autarky (Tynan, Mark, 2017). Through the period of interwar years (1919-1939), the main purpose of the modern state system and principles of sovereignty was to help in reducing the aggressiveness of Japanese towards China, where they occupied a large amount of Chines land. It also focused on the mitigation of international conflict since there existed border disputes between Japanese and Soviet Union. This helped in solving and mitigating the multiple clashes which were happening within the Soviet Union and the Japanese who were occupying the Manchurian border. Hence, interwar years were used in the mitigation of international disputes and conflicts (Tynan, Mark, 2017). On the other hand, interwar years through principles of sovereignty also helped mitigating and resolutions the appeasements of Germany’s expansionist were making moves against German-speaking nations in Austria, which is a region that is occupied by the ethnic Germans who are referred as Sudetenland. Hence it helped in solving the desperate stages of the rearmament, which indicated that the Second World War had increasingly loomed.

League of Nations colludes with the enduring nature of the modern state system. For the League of Nations, its main goals were to ensure there are disarmaments and prevention of wars through the use of collective security. In addition, it aimed at the settling of the disputes that existed between different nations through imitation of negotiation diplomacy as well as improvement of the global welfare. These goals of League of Nations collided with the nature of the modern state system which through its nature states that there is nothing which should be authorized as an intervention in any matter which is said to be essential within the domestic jurisdiction of any nation (Omissi, David E, 2017). For instance, unlike the League of Nations, the modern state system states that every nation, regardless of its size, whether small or big, has the same equal rights of sovereignty.

The League of Nations states did not advocate for any respect of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of any nation-states in addition to its failure in dismaying the usage and threats of the military forces, which serves as a means to resolve the international conflicts. This is because the interests of League of Nations collided with the nature of the modern state system, which states that every nation should have its independence of sovereignty regardless of its size (Omissi, David E, 2017). Further, the League of Nations lacks the ability to reinforce any set resolution sin the face of any aggression among nations in addition to the key nations, which then led to the Second World War. On the other hand, for the modern state system, it advocated that every nation should have independent sovereignty where it has the power of enforcing its resolutions when it is faced with aggression. Further, the League of Nations was composed of delegations selected from the member nations, and it has selected a permanent secretariat who oversees the administrative functions (Gilroy, James, 2019). This collides with the enduring nature of the modern state system, which advocates that there should be a democratic representation of the needs of citizens instead of having delegates to represent the nation.

In conclusion, the interwar years, which were between 1919 up to 1939, began with the sense of idealism and optimism with the aim of using the modern system and organization of principle of sovereignty would be modified to enable them in mitigation of the incidence and devastation that existed in international conflicts. On the other hand, there was a collision between the League of Nations and the enduring nature of moderns state systems. The League of Nations did not have respect for a nation’s sovereignty which was the nature of the modern state system.

References

Omissi, David E. “Air power and colonial control: The royal air force 1919–1939.” (2017).

Tynan, Mark. “‘Inciting the roughs of the crowd’: soccer hooliganism in the south of Ireland during the interwar period, 1919–1939.” Soccer & Society 18.5-6 (2017): 648-662.

Gilroy, James P. “Female Composers, Conductors, Performers: Musiciennes of Interwar France, 1919-1939.” (2019): 203-204.