Vienna Awards

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The Vienna Awards were a series of territorial arbitration decisions made by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy in 1938–1940 that redrew Central and Eastern European borders in favor of their allies.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf diplomatic agreement
territorial arbitration decisions
aftermath post-World War II annulment of territorial changes
appliesToJurisdiction Central Europe
Eastern Europe
beneficiary Axis-aligned states
Hungary
chronology interwar period
conflict World War II
country Kingdom of Italy
Nazi Germany
describedBySource historiography of Central Europe
endTime 1940
follows Munich Agreement
hasCause expansionist policy of Fascist Italy
expansionist policy of Nazi Germany
revisionist territorial claims by Hungary
hasEffect increased German influence in Central Europe
increased Italian influence in Central Europe
territorial gains for Hungary
territorial losses for Czechoslovakia
territorial losses for Romania
weakening of Czechoslovakia
weakening of Romania
hasPart First Vienna Award
Second Vienna Award
languageOfWorkOrName German
Italian
legalStatus imposed arbitration
location Vienna
namedAfter Vienna
opposedBy Allies of World War II
surface form: Allied powers (after 1940)

Czechoslovakia
Romania
participant Czechoslovakia
Kingdom of Hungary
Kingdom of Italy
Kingdom of Romania
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
surface form: Kingdom of Yugoslavia

Nazi Germany
Poland
partOf Axis diplomatic strategy in late 1930s
reasonFor appeasement of Axis allies
significantEvent redrawing of Central European borders
redrawing of Eastern European borders
startTime 1938
temporalContext prelude to World War II

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Second Vienna Award relatedEvent Vienna Awards