1. Successor States The Changing Face of Europe Following the Great War

2. What is a successor state? A Successor State is a country formed during the Paris Peace Settlements  Countries formed for ethnic purposes  Others used to create “buffer zone” in Eastern Europe

3. Successor States Czechoslovakia Yugoslavia Poland Finland Estonia Lithuania Latvia Turkey Austria and Hungary became separate nations

7. Treaty of Saint-Germain Formation of  Czechoslovakia  Poland  Yugoslavia Declared Austro-Hungarian Empire dissolved.  Created Republic of Austria  Hungary became independent

8. CZECHOSLOVAKIA

9. Treaty of Saint-Germain  Formed in 1918  Contained areas of Germany and Austria Became important in beginning of WWII

10. POLAND

11. Partitioned by the Congress of Vienna Regained independence 1919  Wilson’s 13th point

12. FINLAND

13. Part of Tsarist Russia White Armies prevailed over Red Army (Bolsheviks) The Treaty of Tartu  October 1920  Finland and Russia

14. ESTONIA, LATIVA, LITHUANIA

15. Fought for independence in 1918 fought against Germany and Communist Russia recognized as independent countries in 1920

16. TURKEY

17. Treaty of Sevres  1920  Partitioned the Ottoman Empire  Restricted military Treaty of Lausanne  Turkey internationally recognized

18. AUSTRIA

19. Austria Treaty of Saint-Germain Signed September 1919 Reduced size

20. HUNGARY

21. Hungary The Treaty of Trianon  1920  Reparations for war  Shaped boundaries  Demilitarization  League of Nations

22. YUGOSLAVIA

23. Formed by Treaty of Neuilly November 1919 Originally Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes Part of Bulgaria ceded to Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes