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Hungarian leader Miklós Horthy and German leader Adolf Hitler in 1938 Hungary's territorial changes. During World War II, the Kingdom of Hungary was a member of the Axis powers. [1] In the 1930s, the Kingdom of Hungary relied on increased trade with Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany to pull itself out of the Great Depression.
By early 1944, with Soviet forces fast advancing from the east, Hungary was caught attempting to contact the British and the Americans to secretly escape the war and establish an armistice with the Allies. On 19 March 1944, the Germans responded by invading Hungary in Operation Margarethe. German forces occupied key locations to ensure ...
After the collapse of a short-lived Communist regime, according to historian István Deák: . Between 1919 and 1944 Hungary was a rightist country. Forged out of a counter-revolutionary heritage, its governments advocated a “nationalist Christian” policy; they extolled heroism, faith, and unity; they despised the French Revolution, and they spurned the liberal and socialist ideologies of ...
English: War Flag of the Kingdom of Hungary from 1 January 1939 to 8 May 1945 – size III and V (300 X 150 cm and 200 X 100 cm) – for use on two-storey and ground floor military buildings.
Flag of the Kingdom of Hungary A horizontal tricolor of red, white and green with the crowned small coat of arms in the center. 1:2 2:3 1849 – 28 July 1867 Flag of the Kingdom of Hungary as part of the Austrian Empire A horizontal bicolor of black and yellow. 2:3 28 July 1867 – 1869 Flag of the Kingdom of Hungary
Irredentism in the 1930s led Hungary to form an alliance with Hitler's Nazi Germany. Eva S. Balogh states: "Hungary's participation in World War II resulted from a desire to revise the Treaty of Trianon so as to recover territories lost after World War I. This was the basis for Hungary's interwar foreign policy." [8]
The national flag of Hungary (Magyarország zászlaja) is a horizontal tricolour of red, white and green. In this exact form, it has been the official flag of Hungary since 23 May 1957. The flag's form originates from national republican movements of the 18th and 19th centuries, while its colours are from the Middle Ages.
English: War Flag of the Kingdom of Hungary from 1 January 1939 to 8 May 1945 – size I (500 X 150 cm) – for use on the main building of the Ministry of Defence and the residence of the Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Hungarian Defence Forces.