this the changes geographically were immense as the demise of two of Europe's superpowers, namely Austria-Hungary and Germany made way for a new Eastern Bloc of countries the majority of which post-wars were under Soviet control. The crisis of empire at the end of the First World War brought new countries into existence particularly in the east as the aftermath of World War I saw the emergence of new eastern European units like Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, and the Ukraine with the majority of these countries following ethnic boundaries. Yet new butterfly nations like Austria, Hungary and Yugoslavia also emerged formed from caterpillars of previous empires. Yet by 1950 these regions are all under Soviet control as this Eastern Bloc became predominantly Communist under the influence of the Soviets as Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria all came under this new regime. Germany is divided at this time by what is known as the 'Iron Curtain' with the Allied Forces, Britain, America and France all occupying zones within the country on the western front and also zones within the divided city of Berlin with the Soviet Union occupying the Eastern Front. As to whether Europe's 'old order' was restored geographically by 1950 the answer is very much no in Eastern Europe at least as a complete transformation occurred at the expense of two former European superpowers. Yet the 'order' was as such restored in Western Europe, as the geographical outlook remained nearly exactly the same as per the 'old order' except for that of the German demise and the establishment of the new Irish Free State, which in turn became a republic in 1937.
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