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Warsaw Pact - Coggle Diagram
Warsaw Pact
Hungary
Social
Problems
Hungarians had to pay for troops to be present on the streets
Didn't want troops on the streets
Every aspect of life controlled
Media
Theatre
Art
Music
Street signs, schools and shops all Russian
Education didn't teach Hungarian history
Was not communist
No freedom of speech
Politics
Leaders
Secret police
Terrorised and tortured political opponents
Rigged elections
20% voted communist in 1945
Rakosi
1956 Retires
Falling living standards
Nagy
Reforms
Intends to abolish one-party state
Will free political prisoners
Will leave the Warsaw Pact
Will abolish the Secret Police
Took leadership October 1956
Economic
Businesses and farms nationalised
State owned
Low standard of living
Food shortages
Goods manufactured in Hungary get shipped to USSR
Workers become frustrated
Main figures
Causes for uprising
Austria says it will be neutral
Low standard of living
Soviet reaction
Send in tanks and troops
2 weeks fighting
Why?
Avoid losing other satellite states
acting under china's advice
Khrushchev had been deeply criticised for criticising Stalin
His position was under threat
200,000 fled to Austria
Deaths
1000 Russians
3000 Hungarians
Outcomes
Kadar appointed leader under communist control
Nagy and his associates executed
35,000 arrested
300 executed