Nikita Khrushchev responded with troops and tanks to the uprising in Hungary.
Nikita Khrushchev responded with troops and tanks to the uprising in Hungary.
Soviet troops crushed the uprising and executed its leader.
In 1956, there was an uprising behind the iron curtain in Hungary. The uprising was named the Hungarian Revolution and lasted for only a few weeks. During this time 3000 men, women, and children of Hungary were killed.
Uprisings behind the Iron Curtain occurred in 1956 in Hungary and Czechoslovakia.
Nikita Khrushchev responded with troops and tanks to the uprising in Hungary.
When Hungary withdrew from the Warsaw Pact in 1956, Russian troops invaded the country and deposed its government. The Russians set up a new government and executed those it believed responsible for the uprising.
The United Nations was preoccupied with the contemporaneous Arab-Israeli War of 1956 (also called the Suez Crisis, the Sinai War, or the Tripartite War of Aggression) to notice what was going on in Hungary.
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This was the first major jewish uprising. It showed that their would be resistance in the process of the holocaust.
HungaryPopulation: 9,905,596.
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