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So as I mentioned previously all our interwar politics revolved around Trianon, it's impact and the road which led to it. Revision by all means necessary was a popular idea but the military option was too unrealistic so beside the slow buildup we looked for foreign support everywhere and took what was given. Which was actually nothing but it wasn't unimaginable to reach some kind of a revision through the foreign powers. Many people, even important and influential ones thought that the treaty was way too harsh, undeserved, misguided and inaccurate. We also tried to prove we took things seriously, the government repelled the loyalists' Royal Coup d'état twice. However between the two wars not one western power showed any interest of actually doing something, beside the sympathizers there were those who didn't like Hungary and those (probably the largest group) who didn't give a rat's ass about things that didn't benefit their country at least a bit. The rise of the fascist movement in Italy was a godsend. Italy was a monarchy with a real king, a colonial power, a country on the winner side of WWI, the Vatican was basically a second foreign ministry and in Mussolini our regime found an empathic leader to our cause and up to 1940 he remained the main supporter despite the fact we gained not too much thanks to him. Regardless this was a definitive break of the diplomatic isolation. Up to the second half of the '20s the Entente had a commission checking if we keep the military restrictions. It was easy as we were too busy to build the industry what could support armament. They didn't do their job too severely and out government tried to find ways to get around the rules similarly how Germany did at that time. Then everyone licked their wounds during the depression I guess. It was the '30s when things started going better, via Italy we gained access to relatively modern military tech, then the relations got a little warmer with the Little Entente thanks for the changes the new German leadership introduced to the politics of the continent. Czechoslovakia found herself neighboring a potential enemy while the Yugos and Romania got closer to the Reich. The new German ambitions put a strain on the relation with us and Italy because of Austria, Hitler had to build a friendship with Mussolini in order to execute the Anschluss and they finally found common ground and understanding. It didn't meant too much good for us tho. Nevertheless about that time, in fact not many days before the end of Austria our government saw that finally we can do the military buildup openly. The Little Entente could do jackshit. Then few months later they accepted our right to armament in Bled in exchange we gave a promise we won't attack any one of them.