1956 Year of Crisis

Khruschev, Gomulka, Bulganin
1956 Budapest
1956 Budapest
Sándor Petofi, hero of 1848 Hungarian Revolution
Nasser
1956 Suez Crisis
Mollet & Eden on Paris TV
Sept. 26
1956 Ike victory
1956 Ike on TV
NATO, CENTO, ARAB League, Warsaw Pact

1/5 - U.S. put Nike missiles in West Germany.

1/27 - Queen visited Nigeria, next to Kenya where British troops have killed 10,000 involved in the Mau-Mau revolt since Oct. 1952.

2/14 - Khrushchev speech opened the 20th Party Congress urged peaceful coexistence; secret speech 2/24 critical of Stalin, made public by U.S. June 5.

2/24 - 115 arrested in Montgomery bus boycott.

3/9 - British arrested and deported Archbishop Makarios in Cyprus.

3/20 - France granted independence to Tunisia; it had done the same for Morocco March 2.

4/8 - UN truce commission failed to stop armed raids by Israel and Egypt; Dag Hammershold met with Nasser.

4/10 - Polish leader Gomulka released due to destalinization; had been imprisoned since 1951.

4/11 - France dissolved Algerian assembly.

4/14 - Ampex demonstrated videotape recorder in Chicago.

4/19 - Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier of Monaco.

4/25 - Elvis topped charts with "Heartbreak Hotel."

6/9 - Ike surgery to remove intestinal obstruction, his 2nd hospitalization since Sept. 1955 heart attack; returned to White House July 15.

6/13 - last British troops departed from Suez Canal, ending 72 years of occupation.

6/22 - Battle for Algiers began with series of bombings by National Liberation Front (FLN).

6/23 - Nasser elected president of Egypt.

6/29 - USSR sent tanks into Poznan, Poland, to suppress demonstrations by workers.

7/2 - Steel strike began in U.S.

7/19 - U.S. withdrew offer of aid for Aswan Dam.

7/26 - Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal.

7/31 - China invaded northern Burma.

9/4 - USSR sent military aid to Afghanistan.

9/9 - Elvis sang "Hound Dog" and "Love Me Tender" on Ed Sullivan.

9/25 - 1st trans-Atlantic telephone cable began operation.

10/23 - Hungarian revolt began with riots and Russian troops helped Nagy suppress rebellion.

10/29 - Suez Crisis began with Israeli attack led by Moshe Dayan against Egyptian forces in the Sinai, captured 150 T-34 tanks and took 12,000 prisoners.

10/30 - Hungarian rebellion grew into full-scale war against Soviet troops and tanks.

10/31 - Suez Crisis continued as French and British attacked Egypt from Cyprus, backed by the largest fleet in the Mediterranean since WWII; the air attacks destroyed 100 Egyptian planes, many of them MIG-15 jets.

11/2 - Nagy renounced Warsaw pact.

11/3 - Dulles hospitalized for cancer surgery.

11/4 - Soviets sent 1000 tanks into Budapest, arrested Nagy, fired on American Embassy where Cardinal Joseph Mindszenty sought asylum after being released from prison after 7 years; Janos Kadar formed a new pro-Soviet government; 10,000 Hungarians were killed.

11/6 - Ike defeated Stevenson in landslide election, 41-7 states and 25-18.3 million popular vote.

11/7 - UN resolution passed demanding end to the invasion of Egypt.

11/20 - Ike offered oil to Europe to fill demand caused by Arab oil embargo.

12/1 - U.S. accepted 21,500 Hungarian refugees.    

   

Sources

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

revised 4/9/06 by Schoenherr | Cold War Policies | Links | Maps | Newsreels | Ike