. . "In the context of the history of the twentieth century, the interwar period or interbellum (Latin: inter-, \"between\" + bellum, \"war\") was the period between the end of World War I and the beginning of World War II\u2014the period beginning with the Armistice with Germany that concluded World War I in 1918 and the following Paris Peace Conference in 1919, and ending in 1939 with the invasion of Poland and the start of World War II."@en .