AHQ: Eastern European Federation

With a POD no earlier than 1900, is it possible to create an a pan-Eastern European alliance, comprising Romania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Hungary, and possibly Greece and have it play a major part in at least one world war?
 
One of the reasons the Poles attacked the USSR in 1920 was that they wanted to create some kind of amalgamation of Poland, Ukraine, and possibly other states as well to stand off both Germany and Russia.

Maybe they succeed?
 
Minus Hungary, that's largely the Little Entente

A stronger Little Entente (but I don't know how to do that) would be interesting. Might make Hitler think twice about trying to take over Czechoslovakia....

Of course, since the Little Entente was formed to defend the others against Hungary (IIRC), it would be difficult to get Hungary on board.

Still.... If Germany (under Hitler or any other nationalist revanchist dictator) and Russia pose a big enough threat, I could see Poland and Hungary joining the group. (If someone remembered Benjamin Franklin's 'If we don't hang together, we shall assuredly hang separately' )

Edit: make defensive pacts with Russia in case of German attack; and with Germany against Russian attack????
 
Teschen gets settled without conflict after WWI. That leads to a closer Polish-Czech relationship, and the formation of an alliance once Hitler or someone with a similar ideology gets worryingly powerful in Germany. At the same time, the Soviets start making threatening moves against Romania. This leads to a general Balkan alliance against Germany and Russia.

*WWII in this scenario could be Hitler invading Czechoslovakia over the Sudetenland, and Yugoslavia, Poland, and Romania join in in support. They fight the Germans to a stalemate by the time France and Britain get around to a serious offensive against Germany.

I'm not sure how to get Hungary into this. Maybe Stalin goes Red Alert on an exhausted Europe, and eventually gets pushed back? Postwar, the old Balkan alliance is reformed, with Hungary included under new management.
 
Maybe a different Austria-Hungary could lead to this. With a POD in 1900 there might be enough time to do some good reforms. Perhaps some kind of relaxation of Magyarization and more democratic reforms in Hungary. Then as the Habsburgs collapse the resulting nations are friendlier to each other and some kind of economic organization is put into place.
 
Maybe a different Austria-Hungary could lead to this. With a POD in 1900 there might be enough time to do some good reforms. Perhaps some kind of relaxation of Magyarization and more democratic reforms in Hungary. Then as the Habsburgs collapse the resulting nations are friendlier to each other and some kind of economic organization is put into place.

Or you could have the Hapsburgs survive WWI in a CP victory scenario and have them puppetize all of the Balkans.
 
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