Focusing on the United States and Western Europe, this volume provides an interdisciplinary reference to the ideas, people, places, and events of the period between the wars. It features biographies of political leaders, artists, athletes, industrialists, and celebrities, descriptions of artistic, political, and literary movements, summaries of laws and court cases, and accounts of events such as the Black Sox scandal, the Boulogne Conference, the Hindenburg explosion, the signing of the Treaty of Berlin, and the Geneva Disarmament Conference.