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Speech?
Churchill gives his Iron Curtain Speech -
Treaty time
A five-year Hungarian-Yugoslav economic and cooperation treaty is signed. -
election?
President Zoltán Tildy dissolves Parliament and calls elections for August 31. -
Preisdent
The Hungarian Independence Party is formed with Zoltán Pfeiffer as president. -
Electoral
An Electoral Alliance of the Hungarian National Independence Front is formed by the coalition parties. -
Hungarian
The dissolution of the Hungarian Freedom Party is announced. Its leader, Dezső Sulyok, resigns his parliamentary seat and goes into exile. -
Parliament
Parliament passes new electoral legislation that narrows the franchise on various political grounds. Over 400,000 people are disenfranchised during August. -
President
Harry S. Truman is elected -
Berlin alrlift begins.
State of Israel is created -
Germans
Deportation of the German-speaking population of Hungary resumes: 36,000 Germans with Hungarian citizenship are moved to the Soviet occupation zone of Germany in the next six months. -
Hungarin army
The strength of the Hungarian Army reaches 20,000. -
Czechoslovakia
There is a communist coup and take-over in Czechoslovakia. -
SZDP
The Social Democratic Party (SZDP) recalls 32 of its members of Parliament. -
United states Join NATO
The US. joins Nato -
China
China becomes communist under Mao Zedong
