Medieval and modern times : an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time . dered acute every chronic disease which Europedatinglh^e had failed to remedy in the long period of general had never given up hopes of regaining Alsace-Lorraine,which had been wrested from her after the war of Poles continued to aspire to appear on the map asan independent nation. Both the northern Slavs of Bohemiaand the southern Slavs in Croatia, Bosnia, and Slavonia werediscontented with their relations to Austria-Hungary, of
Medieval and modern times : an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time . dered acute every chronic disease which Europedatinglh^e had failed to remedy in the long period of general had never given up hopes of regaining Alsace-Lorraine,which had been wrested from her after the war of Poles continued to aspire to appear on the map asan independent nation. Both the northern Slavs of Bohemiaand the southern Slavs in Croatia, Bosnia, and Slavonia werediscontented with their relations to Austria-Hungary, of whichthey formed a part. The Irredentists of Italy had long laidclaim to important coast lands belonging to Austria. Serbia andBulgaria were bitterly at odds over the arrangements made atthe close of the Second Balkan War.* Roumania longed for 1 See below, p. 776. 2 This name, meaning majority men, was given to the faction at an earliertime, when they constituted the majority of the Russian socialists. It was atfirst wrongly explained in the American press as those who want more,and mistranslated Maximalists. 8 See above, p. 700 war. Middle Europe, under the Control of the TeutonicAllies at the End of 1917 767 768 Medieval and Modem Times Transylvania and Bukowina. Then there were the old ques-tions as to whether Russia should have Constantinople, whatwas to be done with the remaining vestiges of the Turkishempire, and who was to control Syria and Mesopotamia. Inthe far East, Japans interests in China offered an unsolvedproblem. The Germans emphasized the necessity of meetingthe discontent with British rule in India and Ireland, New prob- The progress of the war added new territorial perplexities. the war The Central Powers at the end of 1917 were in military pos- session of Belgium, Luxemburg, northeastern France, Poland,Lithuania, Courland, Serbia, Montenegro, and Roumania (seemap, p. 767). Great Britain had captured Bagdad and Africa all the German colonies wer
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