1. 1.Which nations lived in South/Eastern Europe and which of them had their own national state before the First World War?

2. Which of SEE states were on the side of Central Powers and which of them were on the side of Antanta during the First World War?

3. Which were the disappearing empires and new states in SEE after the First World War?

4. What is “The Versailles Order”?

· The most important changes on the political map: emerging of new states, changes of the borders.

· Important changes in the political situation and the ethnical structure in SEE.

· The new “balance of power”.

· The nations/states more/less satisfied with new situation (Romanians, Serbs, other nations which entered the Kingdom of SHS).

· The nations/states, which considered the new order as unjust (Hungarians, Bulgarians, Turks, Albanians). Bulgarians and Hungarians called the new situation “the national catastrophe”.

· The Greek-Turkish war.

· 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.);

· 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.);

· 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;

· majority considered joining the same state with Serbs as positive;

· some were not satisfied with losing statehood and own dynasty;

· divided into tree parts

· not recognized as a nation by the great powers

· 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;

· territorial losses;

· loosing of national self-confidence;

· reparations;

· refuges crises

· belief that the treaty was unjust

· appearance of radical ideas and parties

· territorial losses;

· loosing of national self-confidence;

· reparations;

· refuges crises

· belief that the treaty was unjust

· appearance of radical ideas and parties

· got the Transilvania, Bukovina and Besarabia which meant the unity of Romania;

· westernalisation, new constitution 1923;

· big Hungarian minority;

· change of the system of government;

· got new territories;

· conflict with Turks;

· their empire disappeared;

· losses of territory;

· change of political system;

· establishing of non-confessional modern Turkish state;

· war with Greece;