The collapse of empires like the Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman, and Russian empires after WWI led to the redrawing of borders and the creation of new nation-states. These new states often encompassed multiple ethnic, linguistic, and religious groups (e.g., Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia), whose differing national aspirations and identities made it difficult to forge a single, unified national identity within the new borders, leading to internal tensions and conflicts.
In Eastern Europe, after World War I, the greatest obstacle to national unity in many nation states was the -
Asked in PPSC CS Prelims 2015 · Topic: Interwar Period and Global Economic Crisis (Post-World War I Peace Settlements and their Shortcomings (Versailles Treaty, League of Nations))
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Answer: A. Great ethnic diversity found in the region
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