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interwar

interwar

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The years between World War I and World War II
  • noun
  • /ˈɪntərˌwɔr/
: período de entreguerras
  • Historians often study the interwar years to understand the factors that led to World War II.

Examples

  • The philosophical problem for all those refugees in interwar Europe was that all their rights were dependent on their having a nation.

  • What we're going to try to do today is get into interwar Poland, and in particular interwar Poland's Ukrainian question.

  • And like any season of the interwar years, the medium of film is ever growing.

  • The problem in interwar Europe was not the existence of refugees.

  • "Given that both fiscal and monetary policies were tight in the United Kingdom interwar, it is conceivable that either or both were to blame for the poor outcomes.

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  • The economic conditions during the interwar period led to significant political changes across Europe.

  • Many artistic movements flourished in interwar France, influencing culture for decades.

Surface Forms

interwar singular
interwars plural

Morphology

interwar = war (transparent) = inter + war

As in the adjectival sense, the noun denotes the period 'between wars' and is directly derived from 'inter-' + 'war'.

Etymology

The word interwar combines the prefix inter- meaning 'between' and war meaning 'war', the same inter- you see in international or internet. So the interwar is the time 'between wars', especially the years between World War I and World War II.