Vienna Awards

The Vienna Award, also called Vienna Diktat, two arbitration awards in which arbitrators of the National Socialist German Reich and Fascist Italy sought to impose under Regent Miklós Horthy to its neighbors by peaceful means the territorial claims of revisionist Hungary. They allowed Hungary to occupy territory in what is today Slovakia, Ukraine and Romania peaceful, the Hungarians in 1920 with the Treaty of Trianon in the context of the dissolution of Austria -Hungary after the First World War and lost ever since to regain tried.

First Vienna Award

The First Vienna Award was the result of the Vienna Arbitration of 2 November 1938 at the Belvedere in Vienna, in the areas with Hungarian majority population separated in southern Slovakia and the Carpathian Ruthenia from Czechoslovakia and Hungary were awarded.

Second Vienna Award

In 1940 Hungary from Romania to German pressure a crescent- shaped section of northern Transylvania and the districts of Szatmár / Satu Mare and Máramaros / Maramureş awarded to integrate the Székely Magyar in the Hungarian state territory. However, Hungary had to cede back in 1947 after it in 1941 to the German side (as well as Romania) had participated in the attack on the Soviet Union and lost the war this area too.