CLEP Western Civ II

Answer: A - The newly created Eastern European nations were primarily concerned with land reform. Eastern Europe had remained agrarian as Western Europe industrialized, and while land reform varied among the nations, most immediately sought to shift ownership from large landlords to small farmers. This was less dramatic in nations like Greece, where land was already in the hands of small farmers, than in places like Czechoslovakia, where German lords had controlled the land for centuries. Throughout the region, political parties attuned to the rights of small farmers developed.