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Revision as of 22:47, 24 November 2005 by HunTomy (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)The Second Vienna Award The retrieval of Highland territories in 1938, then the recapture of Subcarpathia in 1939 did not satiate the Hungarian politics, as well as the Hungarian public opinion. These awards allocated only a little of the lost territories (Treaty of Trianon). The main goal was retrieving Transylvania and the other territories inhabited with Hungarians. The armed armed was in view.
Antecedents
In the end of June, 1940 the Soviet Union reclaimed Bessarabia and North-Bukovina, whiches are taken by Romania after World War I. The Government of Romania approved the Soviet pressure, because the resistance was despairing against three belligerent countries:
- Bulgaria, which is claimed southern Dobrudja
- Hungary, which is claimed Transylvania
- Soviet Union, which is claimed Bessarabia and North-Bukovina
The success of Moscow inspired Budapest to urge much determined the solving of the question of Transylvania with Romania. The Axis Powers sugggested the parties concerned to solve their problems by direct negotiations. The interests of the Axis was keeping the peace in the Balkans, because they needed the exports for the war.
The negonations started on August 16, 1940 in Turnu Severin (Hungarian: Szörényvár). The Hungarian delegation submitted notable territorial claims while the Romanians were disposed for only an inconspicuous territorial allowance conflated significant changing of the population. Eventually the negonation fell through.