Hungarian Revolution of 1956

1991 as the Soviet Union dissolved into fifteen separate countries. In response to severe economic problems and growing political ferment in the Union it began to weaken in 1985. When Premier Mikhail Gorbachev took office and ushered in an era of revolution. Soviet influence in Eastern Europe diminished. In 1989, a large majority of the communist states in the region changed its government to a noncommunist one. The Cold War was over, but the city will never forget its history and the symbolic…

* Phony War * Period between 1939- 1940 * there was very little combat as both sides built up their armies and arsenals * Axis * Alliance between Germany, Italy and later Japan * The 'Blitz' * in September of 1940, bombings of London and other major cities occurred in what the British called `the Blitz` * Italian Campaign, 1943 * in July 1943, Canadian, British, and American forces launched an assault on the Italian island of Sicily * by…