Leaky Leaders
President of the United States in 1956
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
Hungary, along with Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany formed this famous wall separating East from West
What is the Iron Curtain?
This famous Soviet Tank proved crucial in the occupation of Budapest
What is the T-54?
This Mountain Range, historically home to many microstates, was among the first parts of the country occupied by the Soviet Union
What are the Carpathian Mountains?
The People's Republic of Hungary, like many other Eastern Bloc Countries, fell in this year of great change
What is 1989?
General Secretary of the Soviet Union in 1956
Who is Nikita Krushchev?
This US Vice President visited Budapest on a mission to secure US Missile Sites in the country in 1983
Who Is George Herbert Walker Bush?
This is what the Hungarians call themselves (and many of their government entities) in Hungarian.
What is Magyar(s)?
While Budapest served as the epicenter of the fighting, another battle flared in the college town of Sopron, right on the border with this Western Country
What is Austria?
This Nationalist and Pro-Russian far-right leader served as the Prime Minister of Hungary from 1998-2002, and again from 2010-2026
Who is Viktor Orbán?
Premier of Hungary from 1948 to 1956, whose pro-Stalin policies lead to the conditions of the uprising
Who is Mátyás Rákosi?
Hungary was not the first Warsaw Pact Country to be invaded by the Soviet Union to repress a revolution. This nation was invaded in 1968
What is Czechoslovakia?
Like many revolutions and protests, this group was key in organizing and spreading the uprising across Budapest
Who are (college) students?
Counter-revolutionary leader and soviet puppet János Kádár set up his pro-Soviet government at this city 60 miles southeast of budapest, during the fighting
Hungary, along with Poland and Czechia, joined the European Union under the control of the MSZP party in this year
What is 2004?
Leader of the Hungarian opposition (revolutionaries)
While Europe weighed on the US's mind, The Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 caused intense fear. Soviet Premier Nikita Krustchev and US President Jack Kennedy were able to negotiate a deal where Soviet Missiles would come out of Cuba and American ones out of this country
What is Turkey?
The list of the Hungarian protesters' demands included this many points and thesis
What is Sixteen?
Prime Minister Imry Nagy would be flown to this Warsaw Pact country, promised free passage by the Soviets, but ultimately tried and executed in the Soviet Union
What is Romania?
This future Soviet Premier was the Ambassador to Hungary in 1956
Who is Yuri Andropov?
In the 1970's and 80's, while the US reeled from the impacts of Vietnam, the Soviet Union unsucessfully invaded Afghanistan, failing due to US Supplied Arms, in a conflict known as this man's war.
Who is Charlie Wilson (TX-2, 1973-1996)?
This head of the Catholic church in Hungary was freed during the revolution, found his way to the U.S. Embassy in Budapest, and then proceeded to spend the next fifteen years there-- as a guest
Who is Józef Mindszenty?
This small unsuspecting wooden footbridge became the go-to route of Hungarians fleeing to Austria, until is was blown by the Soviets
What is the Bridge at Andau?
At the end of the People's Republic of Hungary, a communist thaw, also known by this style of Communism would lead to Hungary loosening it's border with the west, and becoming more Euro-centric.
What is Goulash Communism?