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THE VERSAILLES SYSTEM IN SOUTH/EASTERN EUROPE - ESTABLISHING OF NEW ORDER (1919-1925)

Hungarians: · territorial losses; · loosing of national self-confidence; · reparations; · refuges crises · belief that the treaty was unjust · appearance of radical ideas and parties Slovenians: · got opportunity to develop their own cultural institutions; · became part of bigger state (winner of WWI); · lost of parts of territory inhabited by Slovenes; · lost of Austro/Hungarian market and trade · enter the common state with the nations with whom they had had no closer relationships before (different habits, law system etc.); Croats: · lost of statehood; · got opportunity to develop their own cultural institutions; · became part of bigger state (winner of WWI); · lost of parts of territory inhabited by Slovenes; · lost of Austro/Hungarian market and trade · enter the common state with the nations with whom they had had no closer relationships before (different habits, law system etc.); Montenegrins: · majority considered joining the same state with Serbs as positive; · some were not satisfied with losing statehood and own dynasty; Albanians: · dissatisfied with unchanged borders of their state - many Albanians were still living outside Albania; · the rights of Albanian minority in Yugoslavia and Greece were not recognized; Macedonians: · divided into tree parts · not recognized as a nation by the great powers Greeks: · change of the system of government; · got new territories; · conflict with Turks; Turks: · their empire disappeared; · losses of territory; · change of political system; · establishing of non-confessional modern Turkish state; · war with Greece; Bulgarians: · territorial losses; · loosing of national self-confidence; · reparations; · refuges crises · belief that the treaty was unjust · appearance of radical ideas and parties Romanians: · got the Transilvania, Bukovina and Besarabia which meant the unity of Romania; · westernalisation, new constitution 1923; · big Hungarian minority; Serbs: · reach their national aim to get all Serbs in one state; · got the dominant position in the new state; · some politicians thought they would waste their energy and that the creation of “the Great Serbia” would be a better solution; loosing of Serbian own statehood;

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