Author: Nicholas Buonocore

Nicholas Buonocore is a student at Ramapo College who toke the Discovering Digital History course in the Spring 2021 semester. He was a junior at Ramapo studying history while taking this course.

The 1920s: The Epilogue of the Great War

The 1920s began after the most devastating war in human history at the time had ended. World War I was so destructive, horrifying and bloody that it was called “The…

May 11, 2021
Treaty of Lausanne Declaration of Amnesty

Introduction Otherwise known as Annex VIII, part of the Treaty of Lausanne which ended the Greco-Turkish War, the Declaration of Amnesty addresses the atrocities committed by both sides during the…

April 27, 2021
Web Review: The People History

Content This website does not just cover the 1920s, but rather covers the entire 20th century. The website is divided by decade, which is further divided by year. For each…

March 30, 2021
Book Review: Review of “Recasting Bourgeois Europe”

Recasting Bourgeois Europe: Stabilization in France, Germany and Italy in the Decade After World War I was written by historian Charles S. Maier and was first published in 1975. This…

March 16, 2021
The Beer Hall Putsch

Overview Background Adolf Hitler was a German soldier during World War I. After the war, he remained in the army. In he 1919 was ordered to infiltrate a radical right-wing…

February 16, 2021
The March On Rome

Overview Post-WWI Italy and the Creation of Fascism In the 1920s, Italy was still a new country, especially going by European standards. The various regions in the country all having…

February 16, 2021
The Greco-Turkish War

Overview Background Following their defeat in World War One, the Ottoman Empire had been reduced to a shell of its former self. The only territory they held on to now…

February 16, 2021
What Does the 1920s Mean to Me?

The 1920s have the awkward privilege of being right in between the misery of World War I and the misery of the Great Depression and World War II. As such,…

February 2, 2021