part 2

Cards (6)

  • Self-determination is the right of a nation-group of people with similar political ambitions can seek to create it's own independent government
  • Five new nation-states were created by the treaties of 1919–20: Czechs and Slovaks in Czechoslovakia, Hungarians in Hungary, Austrians in Austria, Poles in Poland, and Slavs in Yugoslavia.
  • The empire that was split up to create these new nation-states was Austro-Hungaria.
  • Czechs and Slovaks ruled in Czechoslovakia.
  • Serbs ruled in Yugoslavia.
  • Four problems with self-determination are: it caused small Wars in Poland, Teschen and Fiume, it was not allowed for Germany, it created many small, Weak countries, which Hitler easily conquered later, and the new nation-states had racial Minorities living there.