Redrawing+Borders

=Redrawn European and Colonial Borders After WWI=

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World War One brought great change to the map of Europe. After the war ended the main question was what to do about all of the territory that was under the control of the Second Reich. This began with the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk which occured between Germany and Russia after the Boshlivik provisonal government had taken power. The Russians realized that their war was lost and decided that a loss of territory was a small price to pay for security. They ceded Finland, parts of Poland, Lativa, Estonia, Lithuania and the region of Bessarbia. Although it seemed as if Germany was doing well, things turned for the worst on the Western Front and ended in an armistice. The Treaty of Versailles was harsh in terms of territorial loss for the Germans and their allies such as The Austro-Hungarian Empire. After the Treaty of Versailles Germany ceded The Poloish Corridor, Alsace- Lorraine- which was later converted into a demiltarized zone as decided at the Treaty of Versailles. The Austro-Hungarian Empires territory declared themselves the independant nations of Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary, Serbia and Yugoslavia. This occured partially because of the very thing that the Empire feared most-nationalism. The various nations encompassed in the Empire wanted a government of their own. The nation of Yugoslavia, which was united by the expanded Serbian monarchy is now these modern nation.

This picture shows Europe before World War 1(bottom).