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1. THE TREATY OF
TRIANON
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4th June 1920

2. 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

3. 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

9. THE HOLOCAUST

10. 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

11. The best known camp was in AuschwitzBirkenau.
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

17. AFTER THE SECOND WORLD
WAR
THE RÁKOSI REGIME

18. 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

24. 1956
THE HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION
AND WAR OF INDEPENDENCE

25. The people went to the streets and organized
demonstrations
Imre Nagy the prime minister supported the
freedom fighters
Finally the Soviet army won

26. Thousands of people were arrested
Imre Nagy was executed in 1958
A lot of people had to leave the country

32. 1989

33. 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

34. 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.’