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HUNGARIAN UPRISING 1956 - Coggle Diagram
HUNGARIAN UPRISING 1956
SOVIET RULE IN 1945-55
warsaw pact 1955
Khrushchev
in response to NATO 1949
soviet countries working together
Stalin wants to expand communism
eastern Europe
red army
comecon
ecosystem
cominform
information
stalin dies 1951
replaced by Khrushchev
'de-stalinisation'
causes cominform
yugoslavia
removal of soviet troops in Austria
free elections
freedom of speak
BACKGROUND
led by Rakosi
protests
Hungarians were not happy about the secret police
soviet troops in Hungary
Khrushchev says he will withdraw troops
MAIN EVENT
Rakosi is replaced by Imre Nagy
wants to remove them from the Warsaw pact
Imre Nagy
killed1958
Khrushchev
not happy with Nagy's decision
NOV 1956
1000's of troops sent into Hungary by khrushchev
mass protests
30,000 hungarians killed
statue of Stalin destroyed
training grounds and tanks
western help
didn't help
preoccupied with the suez canal
OUTCOMES
USSR harsher on their satellite states
new leader Kadar
crushed all the anticommunist protestors
Hungary had a lot of refugees
not allowed to leave the Warsaw pact (Hungary)
importance
failure
example of soviet threat
worries the West
still have prominent Soviet control in EEU