Post-War Kingdom of Hungary – An Unwanted Product of the Entente Powers Politics Endangering the Central European Status Quo (1919–1920) Cover Image

Poválečné Maďarské království – nechtěný produkt dohodové politiky ohrožující středoevropský status quo (1919–1920)
Post-War Kingdom of Hungary – An Unwanted Product of the Entente Powers Politics Endangering the Central European Status Quo (1919–1920)

Author(s): Andrej Tóth
Subject(s): History, Political history, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939)
Published by: Národní archiv
Keywords: international relations; foreign policy

Summary/Abstract: The article seeks to summarise the principal moments of the post-war development of Hungary in the context of foreign politics. Hungary failed to find its new identity, and at the beginning of 1920, based on constitutional law, it eventually returned to the situation before 31 October 1918 and lawfully negated the entire period of the political development of Hungary between 31 October 1917 and 7 August 1919 as incongruous with the constitutional tradition of the country. For its neighbours, especially the Czechoslovak Republic, the Kingdom of Romania, and the Kingdom of SHS, or the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, the Kingdom of Hungary logically became a dangerous destabilising state player that endangered the established status quo that was signed at the Paris Peace Conference. Nevertheless, the allied powers were also at fault because they paid attention to Hungary too late and ignored the post-war Hungarian governments that were inclined towards collaboration with the allied powers and their representatives at the peace conference.

  • Issue Year: 30/2022
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 457-482
  • Page Count: 26
  • Language: Czech