Some information about Yugoslavia

• Yugoslavia was the most complicated of the new countries created by the Paris Peace Conference.
• It was formed by Serbia and its neighbours (most of them had been part of Austria-Hungary)
• It was named as the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, but in 1929 it changed its name to Yugoslavia (land of the South Slavs).
• Yugoslavia showed Wilson’s idea of self-determination.
• The Allies thought that a large and powerful state could be a stablishing influence in the Balkans.

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