Austria-Hungary War Research Paper

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During World War One, Austria-Hungary was destroyed and Hungary was once again a free country. Hungary was a primarily agricultural country, and was rather peaceful, with no particular enemies. However, the newly found peace wouldn't last. By the early forties, the European nation was at war. Hungary wanted to remain neutral, but through a cyclone of bribes, Hungary joined the Axis Powers in the war. As Germany's power started to decrease, Hungary attempted to back out of the war, resulting in Germany storming Budapest, Hungary's capital. Then, the Soviet Union forced Germany to retreat out of Hungary and took control of the union. The Communist state the Soviet Union set up resulted in a revolution from Hungarian citizens, that although it …show more content…

Places were demolished by gunfire, fires, and several other problematic methods of fighting. The number of people who died in Hungary with direct cause of the Revolution between 1956 and 1957 is unknown, but is estimated between the astronomical amounts of twenty and fifty thousand citizens. Guilt and depression are frequent side effects of a loved one passing away, and these things may cause a person to shut themselves out from the world and simply stop working. People who managed to survive with their homes, but lost loved ones, let their crops die, let themselves sink away with guilt and depression as guilt and depression took over their lives. With some people, change was not as obvious in their lives after the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. These people still continued to work, their crops were harvested, and physically, they were healthy. However, as healthy as they appeared on the outside, on the inside, these men, women, and children were a wreck. Instead of having guilt or depression, these citizens had, and the survivors who remain alive today most likely still have, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, otherwise known as PTSD. Although

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