Janos Kadar Biography

Appointed Member of Communist Party in Hungary

Elected Deputy Secretary General of the Hungarian Communist Party

Appointed Member of Provisional National Assembly

Appointed Member of Provisional National Assembly

Appointed Minister of Internal Affairs, 1st term

Appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs

Imprisoned for deviation from Stalinism, 1951-1953. Expelled from the Communist Party & imprisoned, 1951-1954

Forms a Government in eastern Hungary free from "fascist ounter-revolutionaries"

Appointed Head of the Hungary Socialist Workers Party. Rehabilitated after release from prison & appointed Party Leader

Appointed Prime Minister of Hungary, 1st term

Decides democratization has gone too far

Decides democratization has gone too far

Appointed Head of the Hungary Socialist Workers Party

With the help of Soviet troops suppresses the revolt

The west does not intervene due to the Suez crisis at the same time. Soviet tanks supporting Kadar return to Budapest & shell insurgents. Soviet tanks shell Budapest, 200,000 escape to the west which is preoccupied with Suez

The west does not intervene due to the Suez crisis at the same time. Soviet tanks shell Budapest, 200,000 escape to the west which is preoccupied with Suez

The west does not intervene due to the Suez crisis at the same time. Soviet tanks shell Budapest, 200,000 escape to the west which is preoccupied with Suez

The west does not intervene due to the Suez crisis at the same time. Soviet tanks shell Budapest, 200,000 escape to the west which is preoccupied with Suez

Appointed Prime Minister of Hungary, 2nd term

Resigns as General Secretary mainly due to mounting economic difficulties and his own ill-health