Aqa History Cold War

• Hungary had been led by the hardline communist Mátyás Rákosi until June 1956


  October–November 1956
• In June 1956, Mátyás Rákosi tried to arrest 400 communist opponents who had called for reform
• 24 October: Nagy is appointed prime minister
• The USSR forced Mátyás Rákosi to step down and replaced him with Enö Gerö
• The uprising in Hungary showed urgent pressures for social and political reform in the region
• The idea of peaceful coexistence remained despite tensions
• In October 1959, Khrushchev reaffirmed his commitment to peaceful coexistence
• China played a part in all Soviet foreign relations
• The Austrian State Treaty appeared to signal a positive change in Cold War diplomacy
• Relations between the superpowers were soured by the Soviet repression in Hungary and by a tense crisis over Berlin in 1958
• Western propaganda outlets like ‘Radio Free Europe’ encouraged Hungarians to believe they might be helped by Western intervention to ‘roll back’ communism
• Khrushchev’s adoption of peaceful coexistence was intended to diminish US-Soviet tensions
• Both Khrushchev and Eisenhower had high hopes for the planned Paris Summit
• The lack of intervention from the West and the United Nations confirmed that Eastern Europe was firmly under Soviet control
• In September 1959, Khrushchev became the first Soviet leader to visit the USA
• Students in Budapest organise an anti-Soviet protest that culminates in the articulation of 16 demands

  22 October
• Workers join in with the students and the situation escalates into an armed revolt

  23–24 October
• Soviet intervention in Hungary convinced the West that the USSR had not changed its foreign policy orientation
• Plans for the Paris Summit

  May 1960
• Nagy meets with Soviet officials


  To try to convince them that military intervention is not necessary, assuring them of Hungary’s loyalty
• President Eisenhower was not prepared to risk a Third World War
• The mounting tension between the USSR and China paved the way for another summit to discuss the future of Germany
• Poland and Hungary saw Khrushchev’s policy of peaceful coexistence as an opportunity to make internal reforms
• There were goodwill visits and constructive diplomacy between superpowers
• Soviet tanks fire on unarmed civilians, revolt spreads to the countryside, Nagy wants to negotiate withdrawal of Soviet troops

  25–26 October
• What was the population in England

  2.2 Million
• 2 bishops in England that are the most known

  Thomas Moore, Bishop Fox
• Which reaty was the one that Hneyr the eight signed Schotland that made him marry her daıghter mary to James the Vth

  Treaty of Ayton
• Whic chancellors were executed in Henry the eights reign the start

  Epsom and Dudley
• What sid Jps do

  They bringed law amd order to the local courts .
• What did decline in rHenry the ieghts reign

  raw wool
• What arose in Henry the sevenths reşgn

  Enclosure
• Yorkshire Rebellion date


  1489
• Cornish Rebellion date


  1497
• Who got executed in Yorkshire rebellion

  Earl of Northumberland