I asked a version of this question on WWI AMA but got no answer. Obviously, the outcome of the war was a plethora new national states. Minimally, Austria, Hungary, Poland, Ukraine, Finland, Turkey, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Turkey, Armenia (briefly), Georgia (briefly), and Azerbaijan (briefly) emerged during this period and Yugoslavia and Romania expanded to include more co-nationals. Albania and a few other Balkan countries emerged in the period immediately before the war. Ireland appeared shortly after the war, in large part because of ethnic agitation during the war.
However, during the war, was it clear that this is how Europe was going to end up? Was there increasing nationalism among, say, the Hungarians before the Aster Revolution? Or were they rallying around the flag and proudly fighting for King and Kaiser? Was there a sense that "their people" were dying for "someone else's Kaiser"?
I have a sense of what it was in the Ottoman Empire: increasing nationalism for some of the Christian minorities, which was brutally repressed; increasing nationalism for the Arabs, who participated in the famous Arab Revolt; but also increasing Pan-Muslim moves by the government, which tended to favor non-Arab Muslims generally rather than Turks specifically. Do we see similar patterns in other countries? Russians favoring East Slavs while the Baltic states were restless? Austrians favoring Germans and Hungarians while the Slavs were increasingly nationalistic? What about other states with minority populations?
And what about, say, French Jews still reeling from the Dreyfus Affair? Or Scotsman looking across the Irish Sea?
Edit: I'm asking about changes specifically during the war years.
By the end of the war minority groups became increasingly vocal about their desire to have independent nations. The rhetoric of self-determination that Wilson employed in advance of Versailles greatly raised the hopes of groups in Eastern Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and East Asia.
Syngman Rhee was a former student of Wilson's at Princeton and sought an audience with the President to press Korean independence and was greatly distressed when he was rebuffed. Ho Chi Minh actually showed up in Paris hoping to present a manifesto calling for Vietnamese independence to the delegates. Arab groups from Egypt and Syria sent delegations to the peace conference as well. Jewish groups continued to press for territory as well, which had previously led to the Balfour Declaration but no state. In the end all of these groups were bitterly disappointed by the resulting treaty since Versailles largely held to the desires of the UK and France with regards to colonial disposition.
An excellent book on the subject is The Wilsonian Moment by Erza Manela, which looks at how hopes for self determination flared during this period.