Bertol, Ivana.
(2018).
U potrazi za saveznicima: jugoslavenska vanjska politika od 1929. do 1941. godine.
Diploma Thesis. Filozofski fakultet u Zagrebu, Department of History.
[mentor Šute, Ivica].
Abstract
The Interwar period, without a doubt, symbolized one of the most turbulent periods of World
History. The aftermath of the devastating First World War, the October Revolution, the Great
Depression and the emergence of radical totalitarian systems are just one of many references
to that dynamic period. The Interwar period brought many challenges to the Kingdom of
Serbs, Croats and Slovenes that is, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, both to its domestic and
foreign policy. From its creation, the Kingdom of SHS was surrounded by various foreign
policy enemies, unsatisfied with the outcome of World War I, waiting for the chance to take a
part of that young country’s territory. The country not only had to obtain diplomatic
recognition from the rest of the world but also find strong allies. In the 1920s, Western
countries, primarily France and the Little Entente seemed like strong allies of the Yugoslav
state, but the Great Depression changed everything. France suddenly started to lose its
political and economic power, the Little Entente stopped being a relevant factor with the end
of the Habsburg danger, and the Nazis brought Germany its economic revival. Just as the
balance of power in Europe was changing, so did the Yugoslav political orientation. With a
strong support of the leading politicians in the country, their biggest enemies like Bulgaria,
Italy and Hungary started to become important allies, and irrelevant Germany was becoming
the most important Yugoslav economic ally. The new diplomatic policy meant new allies in
the Second World War which led to Yugoslavia having to join the Tripartite Pact. That
implied a complete turn in the Yugoslav foreign policy compared to the 1920s since this time,
both Great Britain and France were on the other side too.
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