Second Vienna Award (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Second Vienna Award was the second of two Vienna Awards. Rendered on August 30, 1940, it re-assigned the territory of Northern Transylvania from Romania to Hungary. After the World War I, the multiethnic Kingdom of Hungary was split apart by the Treaty of Trianon to form several new nation-states. The new Magyar nation-state of Hungary was approximately the size of the former Kingdom, and many ethnic Magyars now lived outside the borders of Hungary. Many historically important areas were assigned to other countries, and the distribution of natural resources came out unevenly as well. Thus, while the various non-Magyar populations of the old Kingdom generally saw the treaty as justice for the historically-marginalized nationalities, from the point of view of the Hungarians, the Treaty had been unjust and even a national humiliation.