Hungary

• Results of the hungarian uprising?

  • US and Britain condemned (didn't approve of) the attack
  • Sent a message to the other Warsaw Pact countries
  • 7,000 soviets were killed
  • Soviets remained in control of Hungary
  • 200,000 Hungarians fled to Austria
  • 20,000 Hungarians died
• Why did Khrushchev invade Hungary?

  • He needed to assert his dominance
  • If Hungary left the Warsaw Pact other countries could follow
  • They would lose a part of the buffer zone
  • It was a rejection of communist rule
• Reasons for the Hungarian Uprising?

  • They had no freedom of press, religion and speech
  • The government was becoming communist
  • Soviet troops were placed in Hungary, draining the economy
  • Rakosi refused all trade with the west
  • Living standards were lowered
  • Many people were being arrested and killed
• What are Nagy's reforms?

  
  

  • Free elections
  • An impartial legal system
  • The total withdrawal of the Soviet army from Hungary
  • Farmers allowed private ownership of land
  • Hungary to leave Warsaw Pact
  • Hungary to declare neutrality in the Cold War