pre-war

adjective6

1. •
   Before a war.
2. •
   Before the most recent or significant war in a culture's history.
3. •
   Before the outbreak of World War I in 1914.
4. •
   Before the outbreak of World War II in 1939.

   • The hanging-bowl lampshade in marbled glass was two decades pre-war – the kind that marked out aged people. — 1998
5. •
   Especially pre-war architecture: buildings (particularly in and around New York) built between 1900 and about 1940.
6. •
   Between the end of World War I in 1918 and the outbreak of World War II in 1939; interwar, especially Weimar Republic Germany.