The Hungarian Uprising

• Hungary:

  • lack of freedom
  • Could not vote
  • Had fuel and food shortages
  • Their leader (bald butcher) was brutal
• Kruchshev sent in the Red Army and stopped riots. He tried to please them with a new leader, Nagy
• Imre Nagy:

  • wanted voting and dictatorship
  • asked for political prisoners to be free
  • asked krushchev to remove communist troops
• In Nov 1956, Nagy told soviets that Hungary would leave the Warsaw Pact.

  
  

  Krushchev felt that other countries may copy Hungary, ruining power for Soviet Union
• Soviet Invasion of Hungary - 1956

  -Krushchev sent in Red army, hungarians fought back

  -America didn't help because they didnt want to interfere - it was too risky
• Short term consequences:

  • It failed
  • America didn't support
  • 20k Hungarians killed
  • Huge threat to soviet-run countries
  • Nagy executed
• Long term consequences

  • Krushchev seemed more powerful
  • a new stronger leader in Hungary
  • showed USA wouldn't help - krushchev could be more aggressive
  • made USA look weak