The Hungary uprising

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The Hungary uprising

Causes

  • Nagy became president after Rakosi was forced to resign as he was communist and people didn't like that.
  • Nagy made the Soviet troops withdraw from Hungary
  • Nagy wanted to leave the Warsaw pact.
  • Nagy applied to the West for help but none came, as they were concenderd about the Suet criss in Egept

Effects

  • this made Krushchev worried
  • this made him send in 1,000 troops to were the uprising
  • after 2 weeks of fighting on the streets, Nagy was later captured and later shot
  • between 2,500 to 30,000 Hungarians were shot mostly the innocent, and only 700 soviet troops died.
  • over 200,000 refuges fled to the west
  • Hungary didn't leave the pact and nither did any one else because the were sceard of what might happen.

Overall summary

Nagy wanted to leave the Warsaw pact, but Khrushchev didn't want them to as there would be a gap in the buffer zone. this meant that he sent in 1,000 troops in to Hungry to stop the uprising and to restore peace and soviet control. this meant that he was now seen as more of a dictator then before.

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