While generic meaning of the terms interwar period and interbellum (Latin: inter-+bellum) is "period between two wars", in modern times they commonly refer to the period between the end of the Great War or First World War and the beginning of the Second World War in Europe (1918–1939).
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“Of all the barbarous middle ages, that
Which is most barbarous is the middle age
Of man! it is—I really scarce know what;
But when we hover between fool and sage,
And don’t know justly what we would be at—
A period something like a printed page,
Black letter upon foolscap, while our hair
Grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)