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MAP 25.4 Territorial Changes After World War IWorld War I brought tremendous changes to eastern Europe. New nations and new boundaries were established, and a dangerous power vacuum was created by the relatively weak states established between Germany and Soviet Russia.> MAPPING THE PASTANALYZING THE MAP: What territory did Germany lose, and to whom? Why was Austria referred to as a head without a body in the 1920s? What new independent states were formed from the old Russian empire?
CONNECTIONS: How were the principles of national self-determination applied to the redrawing of Europe after the war, and why didn’t this theory work in practice?