History: The Interwar Years - 1920s/1930s: Internet resources

Click here to access the UN's archive of The League of Nations (which is another online guide like this one).

• Documents of the Interwar Period

Digital primary documents assembled at Mount Holyoke College.

(1918-1941; transcriptions and translations)

• League of Nations: Statistical and Disarmament Documents

About 260 full-text documents provided by Northwestern University Library.

Browse by title or by year.

(1919-1946; facsimiles and transcriptions in various languages)

• League of Nations Photo Archive

Includes a League of Nations Timeline and Documents of the League.

In cooperation between the League of Nations Archive in Geneva and Indiana University Center for the Study of Global Change.

(1919-1939; images, transcriptions, and commentary)

• Events Leading up to WWII

"Chronological history of certain major international events leading up to and during World War II with the ostensible reasons advanced for their occurrence."

(1931-1944; transcription)

The Aftermath of WWI

• The Peace Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, 1918 [At Yale]
• Tomas Masaryk: Independent Bohemia, 1915 [At H-Net]
• Woodrow Wilson: The Fourteen Points, Jan 8,1918, excerpts [At Fordham] and here [At Yale]
• The Versailles Treaty, 1919, excerpts [At Fordham]
• The Treaty of Versailles, June 28, 1919 [At Yale]
• WEB Treaty of Versailles, June 28, 1919 [At Sandiego] 
  Full text, with many accompanying maps and cartoons.

Lead Up to War - WWII

• The Munich Pact, 29 Sep. 1938 [At Yale]
• Nazi - Soviet Relations, 1939-1941 [At Yale]
• Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Aug 29, 1939 [At Fordham]
• Neville Chamberlain: Peace in Our Time, 1938 [At Fordham]

Click here to read an excerpt (PDF) from this book
[from Lick-Wilmerding High School]

Click here for a long list of links to primary source documents relating to the interwar years.

Search for digital objects between 1917-1937 in the World Digital Library