Krushchev and De-Stalinization
- Stalin dies in 1953
- Replaced by Nikita Krushchev in 1955
- begins to remove any support for stalin through De-Stalinization
- First act to form Warsaw Pact
- It signalled less hard treatment
Summary: A way to get the people of Russia to trust Khrushchev by destroying anything left of Stalin.
The Hungarian Uprising 1956
- First major uprising by a satellite state
- Hungarian Leader Imre Nagy announced he was pulling out of Warsaw Pact.
- 30,000 died, 200,000 flee to the West
Summary: An uprising in Hungary which eventually led to the death of thousands.
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