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Vienna awards
Vienna awards, agreements made in November 1938 and August 1940. They were part of the Axis powers' rearrangement of south-eastern Europe after the Munich agreement of September 1938 gave Hitler the green light to dismember Czechoslovakia. In November 1938 the first award forced the transfer of the southern areas of Slovakia from Czechoslovakia to Hungary and Ruthenia was forced to cede its southern districts, including its capital Užhorod, to Hungary. In August 1940 northern Transylvania, whose population exceeded 2 million, was transferred from Romania to Hungary. This second award and the loss of other territories, led to the abdication of Romania's King Carol (see Romania, 3). See also Axis strategy and co-operation and diplomacy.
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I. C. B. DEAR and M. R. D. FOOT. "Vienna awards." The Oxford Companion to World War II. 2001. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. I. C. B. DEAR and M. R. D. FOOT. "Vienna awards." The Oxford Companion to World War II. 2001. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O129-Viennaawards.html I. C. B. DEAR and M. R. D. FOOT. "Vienna awards." The Oxford Companion to World War II. 2001. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O129-Viennaawards.html |
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Vienna Awards
Vienna Awards (1938, 1940) Two revisions of the Treaty of Trianon in Hungary's favour, mediated by the German and Italian Foreign Ministers, Ciano and Ribbentrop, in an attempt to draw Hungary closer to the Axis Powers at a time of growing European tension. The first Vienna Award of 2 November 1938 returned to Hungary the region of Felvidék in southern Slovakia, which had a Magyar-speaking population. By the second Vienna Award of 30 August 1940, Hungary gained some two-thirds of the long-disputed Transylvania from Romania. Hungary was obliged to return the territorial gains made in both agreements in the Paris Peace Treaties of 10 February 1947.
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JAN PALMOWSKI. "Vienna Awards." A Dictionary of Contemporary World History. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JAN PALMOWSKI. "Vienna Awards." A Dictionary of Contemporary World History. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O46-ViennaAwards.html JAN PALMOWSKI. "Vienna Awards." A Dictionary of Contemporary World History. 2004. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O46-ViennaAwards.html |
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