How were European boundaries redrawn as the result of World War I?
After World War I (1914–18), the victorious Allied powers (Serbia, France, Great Britain, Italy, Russia, the United States, and nineteen other nations) held the Paris Peace Conference (1919–20) to carve new nations out of defeated the countries that made up the Central Powers. The Central Powers were Austria-Hungary, Germany, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire, and a different treaty was signed with each of the Central Powers. The Treaty of Versailles forced Germany to give up territory to Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, and Poland. Germany also forfeited all its overseas colonies and turned over coal fields to France for the next fifteen years. The treaties of St. Germain and Trianon toppled the former empire of Austria-Hungary, which had started World War I in 1914 by declaring war on Serbia after Archduke Francis…
