Impacts And Long Term Effects Of The Hungarian Revolution Of 1956

After taking action against Serbia, Austria-Hungary gained German support, and from there, the first alliance began. Within a week, major European powers like Russia, France, and Great Britain became involved, and more alliances were formed. Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary were the members of the Triple Alliance, while Great Britain, France, and Russia were the members of the Triple Entente. If a country in one of these alliances declared war, the conflict would quickly escalate due to all of the countries that would essentially need to become

Similarly, Austria Hungary made alliance with Serbia to stop Russia from gaining control of Serbia. While, in 1882 Germany and Austria-Hungary had an alliance with Italy to stop taking sides with Russia.

The cold war had a big impact on Hungary and Germany as well. According to document 2a, it states “civilized people of the world, listen and come to our aid. Not with declarations but with force, with soldiers, with arms.” This shows that Hungary was being attacked by the Soviet Union and was requesting help from the United States but failed and the Soviet Union set up a communist government in Hungary making it a satellite. In document 3a, a map of Berlin is shown.

By summer, the revolution 's momentum began to decline. The Austrians ordered the Hungarian diet to dissolve, but the order went unheeded. In September Jelacic led an army into Hungary. A committee of national defense under Kossuth took control, authorized the establishment of a Hungarian army, and issued paper money to fund it. In October 1848, imperial troops entered Vienna and stifled a workers ' rebellion, effectively ending the revolution

The Soviet Union ran this portion of Germany with an iron fist; they built ginormous walls to keep their citizens from going into other countries territories. People of Hungary were trying to escape from the communist leader’s rule. A British political cartoon references what was happening in Hungary by showing Hitler’s dead body and a solider with the sickle and hammer emblem on his helmet, representing the Soviet Union (Document G). With all the people fleeing and fearing their lives, the United Nations did nothing but stand by and let it happen. This was showing that the only help the United States gave these people after the terror of WWII was to be under the rule of a ruthless communist party. Although this was one of the first ways the United States and United Nations gave more land to Communism, it was not the last by a long

This, combined with the pressure from Hitler, caused the government to sign the Tripartite Pact, leaving Hungary no choice but to be involved in the war.

In conclusion, the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 resulted in the death of more than 2,500 Hungarians. Many of the attitudes and occurrences at the time, such as Khrushchev’s brutality and the general unrest under the Soviet Union’s control of countries and their freedom were large factors in the revolt. The West makes no attempts of intervention; Hungary was already under the power of

The collapse of the communist Soviet Union ultimately led to the end of the cold war. The dissolution of the USSR in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. Thus highlighting the inferiority of communism and the superiority of western capitalism. The collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, however, was a result of both domestic and international factors including policies established by both the US and the Soviet leaders, most importantly Gorbachev’s ‘New Thinking’ reforms combined with the hard-line approach of Ronald Reagan. It has also been argued that the collapse of communism in eastern Europe was inevitable due to its moral bankruptcy, as well as the growing economic pressures which ultimately forced the Soviet Union to

When Austria–Hungary ended up at war in August 1914, due to being apart of the Triple Alliance, against the Triple

Germany guaranteed economic aid to Slovakia and military protection and Soviet territory to Romania. Romania joined the axis powers on November 23, 1940 and Slovakia joined a day later. They also warned Hungary that German support for additions to Hungarian land from Czechoslovak and Romanian territory might change to benefit Slovakia and Romania (USHM). Hungary was mindful of recent German support for adding land in northern Transylvania and was eager for future lands added on from Transylvania to their land, Hungary joined the axis powers on November 20, 1940 (USHM). Bulgaria joined the axis powers on March 1, 1941 after Germany offered them land from Greece and that they did not have to participate in the invasion of the Soviet Union. Yugoslavia joined the on March 25, 1941 after Germany agreed to let Yugoslavia remain neutral in the war against Greece and they didn’t demand transit rights for Axis troops. 2 days later, Serbian military officers overthrew the government that signed the Tripartite Pact. This new country that was created was Croatia who joined the Axis powers on June 15, 1941. On June 26, 1941, Finland, who was looking to regain territory that it lost during the Winter War in 1939-1940, joined the fight against the USSR as a “co-belligerent” even though they never signed the

Soon after a Soviet diplomat’s son was kidnapped by the Germans the USSR was forced to revoke the armistice. In 1945 Hungarian and German forces were defeated by the invading soviet forces.

Hungary had a head start on the other former communist-bloc countries in terms of adopting economic reform measures

Italy, Romania, Greece, and the United States all joined in a year or two after the war had started. The Central Power was made up of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and later Bulgaria. Another thing World War 1 had in common with World War 2 was, “It was the also the first of two wars whose central issue was the control of German power” (Roberts & Westad, pg. 886). The Second World War was started because Germany wanted to control all land of Europe. It started after Hitler came into power in Germany. He created an army of his followers, which were called Nazis. Germany, a few months later, seized Austria first and then Czechoslovakia later. The Second World War started after Germany attacked Poland on September 1 1939. Two days later, Great Britain and France declared war on Germany. Just like the First World War, there were allegiances in place so that if one went to war then the other ones did too. Only this time there were not as many countries that had first joined in as in the First World War. One difference between World War 1 and World War 2 was that in World War 1, Germany felt threatened so that is why they went to war. In World War 2, Great Britain and France went to war because they felt threatened.

Revolutions have occurred throughout history and continue to arise even in the present day. Many revolution happens because of the miscommunication between the government and its citizens. In the end, the outcome of revolutions are usually good but, sometimes it might not be what people want. In the following paragraphs, examples of the general causes and effects that creates a revolution will be discussed in order to illustrate how revolutions are mainly caused by the dispute between the regime and its citizen.

The citizens of Czechoslovakia had not known freedom in decades. During much of World War II the nation was occupied by the Nazis and later by the Red Army as it drove the Nazis back to Berlin. When they Red Army moved into an area, communist regimes were set up to govern the area, and establish satellite nations. There were numerous uprisings throughout the decade that were violently suppressed by the communist governments with help from the USSR. After Alexander Dubcek tried to grant reforms to the people of Czechoslovakia in 1968, the USSR and most members of the Warsaw Pact sent their military forces to intervene and suppress any unrest or reforms. Things grew somewhat violent and brutal, as any demonstrators were either or beaten,