Following the end of WWI, Europe was such a mess and destabilized due to many factors such as the fall of the German, Austro-Hungarian, Russian, Ottoman Empires leading to a redivision of the European map.
See the Interwar period in Europe from 1918 to 1939 through small local wars like the Greco-Turkish or the Polish-Soviet ones.
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