Treaty of Trianon

The Treaty of Trianon was signed by the Austria-Hungarian government and the Allied Powers in June 1920 to formally end to World War I. The agreements were undeniably detrimental to the nation-state of Hungary; the new boundary-line decreased Hungary’s territory by about 70% [Davies & Dubinsky, 2018], displaced two-thirds of the Hungarian population, and restricted Hungary’s army to 35,000 “lightly armed” men [Editors of the Encyclopedia Britanica, 2018]. Since the redrawn boundary also ceded ports to Croatia, Hungary had to economically adjust to being landlocked.  Furthermore, the territory given to Czechoslovakia greatly skewed the ethnic populations, with a new population containing 30% Hungarians and 48% Slovaks [Davies & Dubinsky, 2018]. The language tensions between the two groups grew between the World Wars.