Which additional realistic cases could there have been of seemingly extremely unrealistic nationalist territorial ambitions ultimately came to pass? In real life, we had the success of the Zionist movement in reviving Jews' 2,000-year-old claim to Palestine and the success of the Poles acquiring the Recovered Territories (which were Polish or at least proto-Polish in the middle Middle Ages) after the end of World War II:
I can personally think of the Megali Idea succeeding had Greece's war with Turkey after the end of World War I been more successful and also Nazi Germany's Lebensraum idea succeeding had Nazi Germany actually succeeded in making peace with Britain in 1940 and thus managed to subsequently win World War II in the East:
Anyway, what do you think?
I can personally think of the Megali Idea succeeding had Greece's war with Turkey after the end of World War I been more successful and also Nazi Germany's Lebensraum idea succeeding had Nazi Germany actually succeeded in making peace with Britain in 1940 and thus managed to subsequently win World War II in the East:
Anyway, what do you think?