TTHE TREATY OF

TRIANON4th June 1920

Hungary lost 75% of its territory

33% of the population was forced into another country

These people lost their Hungarian citizenship

This treaty had a major impact on the economy

Hungary had no access to the sea any more

Mines, factories, rail lines were taken away

The army was reduced to 35 000 men

Air force was banned

Navy was not allowed

THE HOLOCAUST

In 1941 Hungary joined the Second World War

Jews were listed, and ordered to wear yellow stars

They were also separated into ghettos

Every tenth Jewish victim was Hungarian in the concentration camps

The best known camp was in Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Jews were ordered to line up in rows of five and separated by gender

The Germans were looking for healthy labourers between the age of 16 and 40

The rest were gassed within a few hours

AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR

THE RÁKOSI REGIME

There was a totalitarian, one-party system

The leader of the Hungarian Communist party was Mátyás Rákosi

Hungary was the country of iron and steel

The Secret Police (ÁVH) was everywhere

1956 THE HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION AND WAR OF INDEPENDENCE

The people went to the streets and organized demonstrations

Imre Nagy the prime minister supported the freedom fighters

Finally the Soviet army won

Thousands of people were arrested

Imre Nagy was executed in 1958

A lot of people had to leave the country

1989

Janos Kadar was the leader of the Communist system

This system was called „goulasch-communism”

In the 1980s the censorship was made relaxed

The right to strike and demonstrate was legalized

Hundreds of Eastern-Germans entered the country

Hungary opened its western borderline for the German refugees

Hans Dietrich Genscher gave a speech about this historical step:

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‘Hungarians had already shown in 1956 how they felt about

communism, and in 1989 played a decisive and unequivocal role to bring about its collapse and open the whole of Europe to freedom

and democracy.’