177 1919 - Austria-Hungary II

The History of the Twentieth Century

Mark Painter

History

4.8 • 719 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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In this episode, we look at the birth of Yugoslavia and the cession of ethnic Romanian regions of Hungary to Romania.

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0:00.0	A Serbian nationalist assassination had sparked the Great War and thrown all Europe into chaos.
0:27.7	Now that the war was ended, what would become of the nationalist ambitions of the Serbs and of their South Slav neighbors?
0:37.4	Welcome to the history of the 20th century.
0:41.3	The 20th century.
0:42.3	The Episode 177,
1:08.6	1999, Austria-Hungary, part two.
1:14.8	This is the second episode in the 1990 World Tour series, but we are still looking at the lands of
1:21.3	Austria-Hungary, I should say the lands that were within the borders of Austria-Hungary before
1:26.5	the war.
1:27.9	Last week we talked about the general problems of dividing a multi-ethnic empire into
1:32.9	ethnic nation states and looked at the creation of Czechoslovakia.
1:37.4	Today, I want to turn our attention to the Yugoslavs, the South Slavs of Austria-Hungary.
1:46.0	It's widely believed that the Western Allies created Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia at the Paris Peace
1:52.4	Conference. This is not true, and I hope that by now, listening to the podcast, has disabused
1:58.8	you of that notion. Both of these amalgamated Slavic states
2:03.2	created themselves, and we've traced their steps toward independence on this podcast. By the time
2:09.4	the Paris Peace Conference convened, both of these new nations were fait accompli.
2:15.3	The only business left for the conference to decide was where to draw these new
2:19.9	nation's borders. Not to say that's a trivial matter. No, no, it's far from trivial. Those boundary
2:26.9	decisions can make the difference between a weak nation and a strong one. We saw last week how the
2:32.3	French were keen on a strong Czechoslovakia and the borders were drawn
2:36.0	accordingly to the dismay of some of its neighbors and ethnic minorities. In the case of the new
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