Postwar Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict, and Atrocities Practice Test

The consolidation of the postwar border settlement and West Germany’s gradual acceptance of existing frontiers as part of détente and integration.

A binding League of Nations arbitration ruling that permanently awarded disputed regions to Germany in exchange for renouncing claims elsewhere.

A Vatican-led plebiscite process, which transferred borderlands to West Germany after local Catholic majorities voted against communist rule.

The rapid collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1950s, which removed the main obstacle to Germany’s immediate recovery of eastern territories.

The formation of the Warsaw Pact, which required Poland and Czechoslovakia to cede territory to Germany to standardize military logistics.