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Austria-Hungary Division

Austria-Hungary Division. Cause of the Division. In the autumn of 1918, as a political result of German defeat on the western front in World War I, the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy collapsed .

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Austria-Hungary Division

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  1. Austria-Hungary Division

  2. Cause of the Division • In the autumn of 1918, as a political result of German defeat on the western front in World War I, the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy collapsed. • The dual monarchy had existed for 51 years when it dissolved on 31 October 1918 before a military defeat on the Italian front of the First World War.

  3. Effects • After the war Austria-Hungary was split up in several states: Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, to name a few. • The picture in the next slide shows us how Austria-Hungary was divided after the First World War

  4. Effects • In Austria and Hungary, republics were declared at the end of the war in November. The Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (between the victors of World War I and Austria) and the Treaty of Trianon(between the victors and Hungary) regulated the new borders of Austria and Hungary. The Allies assumed without question that the minority nationalities wanted to leave Austria and Hungary, and also allowed them to annex significant blocks of German- and Hungarian-speaking territory.

  5. The new Austrian state was, at least on paper, on shakier ground than Hungary. While what was left of Austria had been a single unit for over 700 years, it was united only by loyalty to the Habsburgs. By comparison, Hungary had been a nation and a state for over 900 years. However, after a brief period of upheaval and the allies' foreclosure of union with Germany, Austria established itself as a federal republic. Despite the temporary Anschluss with Nazi Germany, it still survives today. • Anschluss was the occupation and annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany in 1938.

  6. Formation Of German Austria • Republic of German Austria was created following World War I as the initial rump state for areas with a predominantly German-speaking population within what had been the Austro-Hungarian Empire, without the Kingdom of Hungary, which in 1918 had become the Hungarian Democratic Republic.

  7. Successor states • The following successor states were formed (entirely or in part) on the territory of the former Austria-Hungary: • German Austria and First Austrian Republic • Hungarian Democratic Republic, Hungarian Soviet Republic, and Kingdom of Hungary • Czecho-Slovakia ("Czechoslovakia" from 1920 to 1938) • State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs (joined with the Kingdom of Serbia on 1 December 1918 to form the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, later Kingdom of Yugoslavia) • Second Polish Republic, West Ukrainian People's Republic

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