Democratic successor states emerged from former empires ...



Democratic successor states emerged from former empires and eventually succumbed to significant political, economic, and diplomatic crises

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1. Shade in the new states that were formed after WWI.

2. Name the states that emerged from the German, Russian, and Austria-Hungarian Empires.

3. Page – 807 – How was the drawing of the new states in Europe based on a combination of both self determination and the needs of the victors of World War I?

The Poland example: A reborn Poland faced a host of daunting challenges: extensive war damage, a ravaged economy, a population one-third composed of wary national minorities, and a need to reintegrate the three zones kept forcibly apart during the era of partition. Under these trying conditions, the experiment with democracy faltered. Formal political life began in 1921 with adoption of a constitution that designed Poland as a republic modeled after the French example, vesting most authority in the legislature. The postwar parliamentary system proved unstable and erratic. In 1922 disputed with political foes caused Pilsudski to resign his posts as chief of state and commander of the armed forces, but in 1926 he assumed power in a coup that followed four years of ineffectual government. Minority peoples become increasingly alienated, and anti-Semitism rose palpably in the general population. Nevertheless, interwar Poland could justifiably claim some noteworthy accomplishments: economic advances, the revival of Polish education and culture, reaffirmation of the Polish nationhood. For the next decade Pilsudski dominated Polish affairs as a strongman of a generally popular centrist regime. Military in character, the government of Pilsudski mixed democratic and dictatorial elements.

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Another example of the determination of the victors to ignore “self determination” of the peoples of the Middle East – ignore Wilson’s idealism.

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