- First major uprising by a satellite state to remove Soviet influence
- Hungarian leader Imre Nagy announced he was was pulling out of the Warsaw Pac
- Soviet entered the capital, Budapest with tanks and armed forces
- 30,000 Hungarians killed 200,000 fled the country for the west
- Soviets installed a new leader Janos Kadar who agreed to follow the Soviet line (stayed for 20 years)
- People questioned why US did not help