Original sentence: As a justification for this political goal, Hungarian revisionists claimed several reasons including ethnic (the presence of Hungarian minorities in neighbouring countries), historical (connection with borders of the former Habsburg Kingdom of Hungary), geographical (the geographical unity of the Carpathian Basin) or economical (economic symbiosis of the regions within the Carpathian Basin).During World War II, as ally of Nazi Germany, Hungarian state expanded its borders on the expense of most neighbouring countries (except Austria), but following Axis defeat and end of the war, the borders of Hungary defined by the Treaty of Trianon were restored.Unsatisfied with these borders, the Hungarian revisionists wanted to enlarge them at the expense of the new neighbouring countries created after the First World War
Edited sentence: As a justification for this political goal, Hungarians provided arguments like the presence of Hungarian minorities in neighbouring countries, historical traditions of the 1000-year old Kingdom, or the geographical unity and economic symbiosis of the regions within the Carpathian Basin.Following the end of World War II, the borders of Hungary as defined by the Treaty of Trianon were restored.Hungary, supported by the Axis Powers, and tacitly by France and Britain (in case of Slovakia) was partly successful in peacefully re-gaining some mostly ethnic-Hungarian regions of the old Kingdom in the Vienna Awards of 1938 and 1940, and with military force in Sub-Carpathian Rus in 1939 and in Voivodina in 1941.Unsatisfied with these borders, the Hungarian revisionists wanted to enlarge them at the expense of the new neighbouring countries created by the Treaty