The Hungarian Uprising, 1956

Question 1

Why would people in the satellite state of hungry unhappy 1956?

Answer 1

• lack of political freedoms
• Fuel shortages
• Poor harvests

Question 2

Do you have placed the Hungarian Prime Minister Rakosi in 1956?

Answer 2

Imre Nagy (Khrushchev hoped he would improve things in Hungary)

Question 3

What did Nagy do?

Answer 3

He reorganised the government to include non-Communists, released. Political prisoners I’ve persuaded Khrushchev to withdraw Soviet troops and hungry

Question 4

What did Nagy announce on 1 November 1956?

Answer 4

He would withdraw hungry from the Warsaw Pact

Question 5

What happened during the Hungarian uprising?

Answer 5

• Khrushchev could not except that Hungary would leave the Warsaw Pact
• On 4 November 1956 his Soviet Army invaded Hungary - 1,000 tanks rolled into Budapest
• Nagy begged the west to support but none came
• Up to 20,000 Hungarians were killed
• nu pro Communist government was set up under Kadar
• listen I being offered safe passage out of Yugoslavia, Nagy was tried and executed in 1958

Question 6

How did other countries respond to the Soviet invasion of Hungary?

Answer 6

Although Radio free Europe, a US-government funded radio station had been urging people Eastern Europe to rebel against communism, no military support was offered by the USA. USA was not prepared to interfere in the affairs of an existing Communist country

Question 7

What was the impact of the Hungarian uprising on international relations?

Answer 7

• Khrushchev’s position in the Soviet Union was more secure
• Warsaw Pact members now knew they had to do what the USSR said
• Khrushchev was more confident dealing with the USA as he knew they would probably not take military action
• The west looked bad-they had not offered military support to Hungary
• relations between the USA and USSR got worse again as the USA condemned the Soviet invasion of Hungary