| Who was tthe harsh leader of Hungary? | Rakosi |
| Who did Rakosi loose power to? | Imre Nagy, communist but not a Stalinist.
(this was after Stalin's death) |
| When did Stalin die? | 1953 |
| What happened in 1955 with power struggle? | Rakosi remained general secretary and in the end Rakosi managed to remove Nagy from power and become PM |
| What was the famous secret speech and who did this worry ? | Made by Khruschev, said that Stalin was a bad mistake and this makes the eastern european leaders scared bc they were very harsh |
| When has the secret speech made? | Feb 1956 |
| What do the students do for poland? | Demonstration to show their support for Poland |
| When was Rakosi removed? | July 1956 |
| Who was Rakosi replaced by in 1956? | Erno Gero, Stalinist |
| What was Gero unable to control? | Protests from High school students to corrrect the the rights of teh 1949 purges |
| What happened on the 6th of october 1956? | State funeral for Rajk, 20,000 go on the street in demonstration to protest about the control from Moscow |
| What happened on October 23th? | Students tore down the statue of Stalin |
| Why was the situation dcritical after the statue? | Police couldn't restore order because Hungarian soldiers were part of the protest and the red army surrounded Budapest |
| What happens with Khruschev and Nagy? | Wants Nagy to be PM for peace, reforms are passed |
| What does Nagy promise? | Free elections , demotractic elections and removal of politcal prisoners from prison |
| Why were the protesters not silence by Nagy's promised? | Encouraged by Radio free europe, telling them to strike and that the west will come to help |
| What does Nagy do on the 1st of Nov? | annonces that he will leave the warsaw pact and asks the UN to help them |
| What happens on the 4th of nov? | Too far for Khrushcev
200,000 soliders and 4,000 tanks sent |
| How long was the fighting? | A week |
| How many USSR soliders died? | 700 |
| How mnay Hungrian deaths? | 3,000 - 30,000 |
| What happens in 1958? | Nagy is executed along with this collegues, given a state funeral later in 1989 |
| Why did the west not help? | Distracted with the suez crisis |
