The document summarizes key events in several countries between World War I and World War II. It discusses the formation of the League of Nations after WWI and various international agreements. For France, it notes economic struggles and efforts to rebuild infrastructure and defenses against Germany. In China, it outlines the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty in 1911 and the rise of the Nationalist and Communist parties, including Mao Zedong's Long March. For Japan, it summarizes its victory in the Russo-Japanese War of 1905, expansion into Manchuria, growing militarism influenced by WWI, and the 1937 war with China.