hungary 1956

• when was the hungarian uprising

  oct 1956
• what did the people protest about

  their lack of political freedoms and problems created by fuel shortages and poor harvests
• who did khrushchev make prime minister after replacing rakosi after the riots

  imre nagy
• what did nagy believe

  within a communist regime, there should still be personal freedoms
• what reforms did nagy have

  he included non-communist parties in the government which ended the one-party state in hungary

  he authorised the immediate release of many political prisoners and persuaded khrushchev to withdraw soviet troops from hungary
• what did nagy announce on the 1st of november 2025

  hungary would leave the warsaw pact
• what happened on the 4th of november

  1,000 tanks rolled into budapest
• how many hungarians were killed

  20,000
• what did khrushchev order on hungary

  a soviet invasion
• who replaced nagy

  a new pro communist government was set up under kadar
• what happened in july 1958

  the hungarian government announced that nagy had been tried and executed
• 200,000 troops sent
• when was the soviet invasion?

  4th November 1956
• when was the soviet invasion of Hungary

  4th november 1956
• 4TH OF WHAT

  november 1956
• what did nagy announce on the 3rd of november

  that hungary would leave the warsaw pact
• Khrushchev did not allow this, sending 200,000 troops, 1,000 tanks; killing 20,000 hungarians
• | reactions to invasion

  • Nagy thought USA would support
  • eisenhower did sympathise but NATO didn’t support militarily as it could lead to war
• • this secured khrushchev’s position, increasing confidence as he knew US is unlikely to attack
  • reflected badly on west for not assisting
  • USA opposed invasion, souring relations