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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 ...
Rákóczi's War of Independence: 1703–1711: Principality of Transylvania: 1711–1867: Hungarian Reform Era: 1825–1848: Revolution of 1848: 1848–1849: Hungarian State: 1849: Austro-Hungarian Monarchy: 1867–1918: Lands of the Crown of St. Stephen: 1867–1918: World War I: 1914–1918: Interwar period: 1918–1941: Hungarian People's ...
The Kingdom of Hungary was an Axis power during World War II, intent on regaining Hungarian-majority territory that had been lost in the Treaty of Trianon, which it mostly did in early 1941 after the First and Second Vienna Awards and after joining the German invasion of Yugoslavia. By 1944, following heavy setbacks for the Axis, Horthy's ...
The wrecks of explosives-laden Nazi ships sunk in the River Danube during World War Two have emerged near Serbia's river port town of Prahovo, after a drought in July and August that saw the river ...
Hungarian – Venetian war Kingdom of Hungary: Republic of Venice: Hungarian defeat 1127–1129 Byzantine-Hungarian War (1127–29) Kingdom of Hungary Grand Principality of Serbia: Byzantine Empire: Stalemate, peace agreement 1132 Hungarian – Polish war [24] Kingdom of Hungary Duchy of Austria: Kingdom of Poland: Hungarian victory 1136–1137
When Agnes Darvas was deported from Hungary to Auschwitz in 1944, she escaped being sent straight to the gas chambers with other children largely because her coat had been stolen in the ghetto and ...
During World War II, the Kingdom of Hungary engaged in the military occupation, then annexation, of the Bačka, Baranja, Međimurje and Prekmurje regions of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. These territories had all been under Hungarian rule prior to 1920, and had been transferred to Yugoslavia as part of the post-World War I Treaty of Trianon.
Hungary developed an impressive tank industry for its size before and during World War II. They built the well-armed Straussler V-4 tank during the interwar period, produced several variants of Toldi light tanks, as well as the Turán family of medium tanks, and later in the war they became the first smaller nation to make their own heavy tank ...