WWI+-+Territorial+Changes

Germany returned the provinces of Alsace-Lorraine to France. Transferred the Saar Valley to the authority of the league of nations, and the Saar's rich coal mines to control of France. Saar coal mines were to compensate France for German destruction to France's homeland during the war. Colonial Germany surrendered all her colonies to the League of Nations, which in turn assigned them as mandates to England, France and Japan.
 * __France:__**


 * __Austria:__**
 * The new state of Czechoslovakia (corresonding rough to the present Czech and Slovak republics) was created from its territory.


 * Part went to the revived nation of Poland.


 * Substantial parts went to Serbia to create the them new country of Yugoslavia, which in turn has disintegrated in the last 10-15 years.


 * Romania almost doubled in size at the expense of Austria-Hungary.


 * Italy gained a few relatively small areas.


 * The link between Austria and Hungary was broken. Union between Austria and Germany (including even a customs union) was forbidden.


 * __England:__**

· Territorial Changes: o The US did not gain or lose any territory throughout the war, but one of the main effects of the conflict was that the US was able to take the place of the leading European nations as the principle world power. Most countries involved were holistically weak at best at the war’s conclusion, but the US was able to profit off the war, and therefore it could even be said that she emerged as a stronger nation than when she entered.
 * __United States:__**
 * __Ottoman Empire:__**


 * __Russia:__**


 * __Serbia:__**
 * After WWI, all of Serbia became the nucleus of a new southern Slavic state, Yugoslavia, which combined Serbs, Croats, and the Slovenes.**
 * __Italy:__**


 * ==failed to annex Dalmatia==
 * ==among Entente, benefited more than Britain and France (who sill faced Germany)==
 * ==Italy only faced a number of small states that posed no threat==
 * ==Italy gained territory: Frioli, Istria, Trentino-Alto Adige/Sudtirol, Trieste, Zara, and some islands==
 * ==But Yugoslavian state isolated Italy==
 * ==more casualties than Britain, less than France==
 * ==social and economic problems hard to overcome==