Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Hungary Uprising 1956
- Leaders
- Gero
- Unpopular
- Demonstration
- JUNE 1956-OCT 1956
- Rakosi
- Unpopular
- 'Stalin's best pupil'
- Hard line communist
- Was opposed by a Communist
group and then asked Moscow
leaders to arrest 400 political
opponents
- Was forced to retire
by Khrushchev due to
'Health reasons'
- 1947-JUNE 1956
- Nagy
- Very popular
- Had plans for Hungary like:
- free elections
- Leave the Warsaw Pact
- Caused
Khrushchev to
get very unhappy
with Nagy and
move in Soviet
troops and tanks
into Budapest
- Give ownership
back to farmers
and businesses
- Stop using secret police
- Kadar
- Nagy and his
leaders were
executed
- Kadar took over
in NOV 1956
and took several
months to crush
all rebellions
- He reassured
Khrushchev that
Hungary were not
going to leave the
Warsaw Pact
- Key Events
- Student Demonstration
- 23rd October 1956
- Stalin Statue torn down
- People unhappy with Communist rule
- Losing freedom of speech,
lived in fear of secret police
and resented the troops
stationed in their country
- November 1956
- Tanks and troops
moved into Budapest
because of Nagy's
reforms
- 3,000 Hungarians killed
- 7.000 Russians killed
- 200,000 Hungarians
evacuated Hungary to
Austria to leave the
Communist rule
- Khrushchev - leader of the USSR
- De-stalinisation