ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the foreign policies of four of those states: Poland, Yugoslavia, Romania, and Hungary. These states faced challenges and opportunities far different from those faced by Britain and France. They were far weaker vis-a-vis Germany, were in a quite different geographic position being sandwiched between two potentially hostile great powers, and several were revisionist in their outlook. In actuality these states exhibited wide range of behaviors including balancing, bandwagoning, and hiding. All of them struggled mightily with which policy or policies to adopt and often shifted from one approach to another in the hope of finding strategy that would work. Thus, Poland moved from balancing against the German threat to limited bandwagoning as odds of British and French aid diminished. Hiding was never much of an option due to geographic proximity and fact Germany aimed to reacquire Polish Corridor. Transcending was briefly attempted by suggesting the Germans focus on the Soviet Union which threatened both Poland and Germany.
