The Hungarian Rising (1956)

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	The Hungarian Rising (1956)
	Causes POVERTY: Hungary was poor, yet much of the food and goods it produced was sent to the Soviet Union OPPRESSION: The Stalinist system of government included censorship, a vicious secret police and control of education YUGOSLAVIAN HELP: When Hungarian leader Mátyás Rákosi asked for permission to arrest 400 troublemakers, Yugoslavia persuaded Khrushchev to replace Rákosi WESTERN PROMISES: Hungarians thought that the US or UN would help them THE CATHOLIC CHURCH: The Communist Part had banned the Catholic religion and imprisoned Cardinal Jószef Mindzsenty NATIONALISM: Patriotic Hungarians hated living under Soviet control	Effects The USSR's response to the revolt indicates that it could not take the risk of a Warsaw Pact member leaving the organisation for fear that other countries would follow, as well as the potentiality of attack due to an opening in the Iron Curtain The West had decided that it would be too risky to help the Hungarians, instead merely offering words of support. They had accepted Eastern Europe as a Soviet sphere of influence, and had instead decided to confront communism in Asia. The events of the rising suggested that Khrushchev's criticism of Stalin did not mean any change to the USSR's control of Eastern Europe.
	Overall summary - 23 OCTOBER: Hungarian students took to the streets demanding reforms- 24 OCTOBER: Imre Nagy, a moderate communist, was appointed as leader- 1 NOVEMBER: Nagy announced that Hungary would hold free multi-party elections and would withdraw from the Warsaw Pact- 4 NOVEMBER: Over 6000 Soviet tanks crossed the boder to end the revolt. Hungarians pleaded with the West and UN for an intervention, but this never came. Over the course of the rising, 30,000 died and a quarter of a million fled west. Nagy himself fled to the Yugoslav Embassy, but was later arrested and executed. He was replaced by Janos Kadar, a much more hardline communist.

The Hungarian Rising (1956)

Causes

POVERTY: Hungary was poor, yet much of the food and goods it produced was sent to the Soviet Union
OPPRESSION: The Stalinist system of government included censorship, a vicious secret police and control of education
YUGOSLAVIAN HELP: When Hungarian leader Mátyás Rákosi asked for permission to arrest 400 troublemakers, Yugoslavia persuaded Khrushchev to replace Rákosi
WESTERN PROMISES: Hungarians thought that the US or UN would help them
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH: The Communist Part had banned the Catholic religion and imprisoned Cardinal Jószef Mindzsenty
NATIONALISM: Patriotic Hungarians hated living under Soviet control

Effects

The USSR's response to the revolt indicates that it could not take the risk of a Warsaw Pact member leaving the organisation for fear that other countries would follow, as well as the potentiality of attack due to an opening in the Iron Curtain
The West had decided that it would be too risky to help the Hungarians, instead merely offering words of support. They had accepted Eastern Europe as a Soviet sphere of influence, and had instead decided to confront communism in Asia.
The events of the rising suggested that Khrushchev's criticism of Stalin did not mean any change to the USSR's control of Eastern Europe.

Overall summary

- 23 OCTOBER: Hungarian students took to the streets demanding reforms- 24 OCTOBER: Imre Nagy, a moderate communist, was appointed as leader- 1 NOVEMBER: Nagy announced that Hungary would hold free multi-party elections and would withdraw from the Warsaw Pact- 4 NOVEMBER: Over 6000 Soviet tanks crossed the boder to end the revolt. Hungarians pleaded with the West and UN for an intervention, but this never came. Over the course of the rising, 30,000 died and a quarter of a million fled west. Nagy himself fled to the Yugoslav Embassy, but was later arrested and executed. He was replaced by Janos Kadar, a much more hardline communist.

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The Hungarian Rising (1956)