Hungarian uprising

• What is a buffer zone?

  the USSR took over satellite countries (boarding Countries) to make a buffer zone between them and their former allies
• What countries did the ussr take over in the buffer zone?

  Poland , east Germany , Czech and Hungary
• What impact did the buffer zone have on us vs ussr relations

  Drove Truman to create the Truman doctrine , angered America
• What did the Hungarians believe would happen after stalins death?

  Believed they would gain more freedom and rights
• Why didn’t the USA send in troops to help Hungary?

  they feared a nuclear war
• What did Nagy Imr promise the Hungarians?

  promised them more freedom
• What were hungarians feelings towards their elections in 1949?

  They were unfair and the elected government restricted their freedoms and rights
• Why were Hungarians poorer then before the war?

  Russia had been taking Hungarian fuel , food and goods
• Why was there a strict censorship of information in Hungary ?

  Due to cominform the press was tightly controlled and little freedom of speech
• How many people were killed during the Hungarian uprising?

  20,000 people killed including men woman and children
• How did America help during the uprising?

  they took in 80,000 refugees who fled during the Soviet invasion
• What did Nagy want to withdraw from?

  The Warsaw pact
• What was the Warsaw pact?

  a military alliance established by the Soviets in retaliation to NATO
• What did Nagy wanting to leave the Warsaw pact lead to?

  Led to Khrushchev sending in red army troops to stop the rebellion
• what did the Soviets send into Hungary to stop the uprising?

  20,000 red army troops and tanks
• how did the USA appear during the uprising?

  They looked weak against the Soviets as they failed to help hungarh
• what did the USA not getting involved mean for Khrushchev?

  it meant Khrushchev had more confidence to control and attack other satellite States without the fear of the USA interfering
• What Did the Hungarian uprising result in for Nagy?

  Nagy was executed and replaced as Hungarian leader
• Who replaced Nagy as leader?

  A brutal communist leader kadar
• Did the Hungarian uprising fail?

  It did fail and Soviets took control
• Why did Khrushchev execute Nagy?

  as a warning to other communist controlled states
• What did Hungarians do during the first protest?

  They pulled down a statue of Stalin