Where? in 1945 albania, Bulgariaug Yugoslavia, Romania , Czechoslovakia , Hungary became Soviet states at the behest of Stalin , and consented by the West , Italy in 1946 after a vote italy became a republic at the behest of the Americans who pressured and then drove the communists out of government, Germany was divided korea ethiopia also annexed Eritrea . do we want to talk about the arrangement of the Congress of Vienna of Europe after Napoleon ? the duchies of Parma and Piacenza , the Duchy of Modena , Liguria annexed to Piedmont , France monarchy , all England south Africa . what about the treaty of Versailles ? the collapse of the Austro Hungarian Empire