Students can compare this political map of world in 1920 CE can be compared to the 1914 world map to understand the changes wrought by the war's end and why the Versailles Peace Treaty didn't decisively resolve European or Asian conflicts. Students might notice a smaller Germany, lacking its colonies in Africa and the Pacific and having lost territory to France. They might also see new countries where the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Empires once stood, and that Russia had become the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. What did these changes represent, and what didn’t change with the end of the war. These points of inquiry can help guide student exploration of the interwar years.
1920 CE political map, by OER Project, CC BY 4.0.