As the first World War ends in 1919, the infamous Treaty of Versailles is signed in France to impose global peace on the defeated nations of Germany and Austria-Hungary.

After the failed Treaty of Versailles, America has rejected its president's peace settlement and withdrawn back into a position of isolation.

Americans continue to have a good time despite the Eighteenth Amendment banning alcohol, and a mood of reckless optimism throughout the country drives investment in the stock market.

A look at the international upset and devastation caused by the global depression; unemployment, hyperinflation, despair are everywhere as people try to survive.

New leaders come to power around the world, from Roosevelt in the United States to Hitler in Germany, while Japan consolidates its invasion of China's north east and militarism triumphs.

As the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics repression builds, the human toll starts to grow, which will be the casualties that will always be associated with Stalin's terrifying rule.