Hungarian uprising

• Hungarian Uprising


  1956
• 25 Oct- Khrushchev sends troops to Budapest to restore peace

  • tanks kill many, on the same day Hungary's leader Erno Gero forced to resign
  • Following day Nagy re-instated as prime minister
• nagys demands

  • USA says ”you can count on us” - misinterpreted
  • eisenhower did not want to get involved due to presidential electiojs
• Khrushchev response to uprising

  • 4 november - 200,000 soviet troops and 6,000 tanks returned to hungary
• events of the invasion of hungary

  • guerrilla tactics
  • kadar arresting Nagy, hanged in 1958
• results of the uprising

  • 7,000 Soviet’s killed
  • 20,000 rebels killed
  • 200,000 Hungarians fled the country
• international reaction to the soviet invasion of hungary

  • eisenhower was symapthetic. did not get involved due to the policy of containment, involvement could lead to nuclear war - in some way it was bad for the west as they encouraged communist countries to stand up to ussr
  • the soviets got a stronger position, making it unlikely for another uprising to occur
  • UN declared its disgust, aid offered to refugees, communist parties in ussr changed opinions