Hungary Canon Update (Mayfield)
Personality: In the beginning Hungary was a cheerful nation for the most part, seeming to take delight in the simplest things and when in the company of those who she considered as a friend. However, when angered she’s a completely different type of person, one willing to go as far as necessary to have that problem corrected and that person or nation disposed of or hurt to within an inch of being unable to move anymore. In all truth she’s really had this temper ever since she was younger and in her advancing years it really has gotten worse before it gets better. Not to say she’s quick to anger, just that she’s a bit overly protective to those she considers herself to be an “older sister” type to. If anyone is genius enough to hurt someone close to her they face the wrath of the Hungarian, and it is quite a force to be reckoned with, even with her knockbacks in power.
As far as recent times she’s really become a bit more docile, biding her time unless situation calls for her to act aggressively. She knows she can not win a fight against her current benefactor and will not truly try unless she finds some sort of hole to exploit. Even then she has become somewhat paranoid with the recent threat upon the world, figuring that by keeping other nations at a distance that she could avoid any intentions of others trying to destroy her. But, even then, she has become far more wary of Russia and those close to him
History (just the updated part): A time of peace was not to be had as come 1914 everything fell apart with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. With Serbia’s actions a massive war broke out, the likes of which the world hadn’t seen before. Soon the battle erupted into what was considered a world war, Europe separating into two factions, the Axis Powers and the Central Powers. Hungary and Austria both sided with the Central Powers which consisted of Germany, Bulgaria, and Turkey. Most of the war was not a terribly big part of Hungarian history, though they continually tried to make progress to capture Italy. Though they could do no such thing due to the economic situation of Hungary deteriorating because of strikes in the factories as well as uprisings in the Hungarian military forces. Near the very end of the war, in 1918, Hungary’s union was dissolved with Austria, this leaving Hungary in something akin to ruin with uprisings and strikes continually going against what had been established.
Soon after this, things continued from bad to worse. The people took to revolting in Budapest, killing the current prime minister and driving the current king at the time to appoint a new prime minister in favor for the Entente powers and a leftist of the time. A little while later the parliament was dissolved and left the kingdom to become a republic, leaving the leftist prime minister as the provisional president of the new republic. During this time frame the government promised land reforms and free elections, but neither were carried out. This led to the king to relinquish his power of the throne.
In the same year, due to America’s president Woodrow Wilson and his pacifist stance, the current president for Hungary’s people took to disarming the military and taking a stance to outlaw all armed forces. Though this was a bad idea when soon after the nations around started arming themselves again. Soon enough the Entente powers began removing land from her, relocating it to different nations and leaving the nation weaker than before. Even during then, the government of the time tried to avoid too much removal and to keep the borders relatively untouched if they could convince their nation to remove herself from the company of both Austria and Germany, leaving her to secure as separate peace. Though, because of the union of Austria and Hungary previously the Entente considered her a part of the failure and demanded more to be taken, leading to France giving her a map consisting of what new boundaries were to be held.
In 1919 Hungary’s boss stepped down and handed over his power over to a coalition of Social Democrats and communists and the group quickly promised that Soviet Russia would help regain the lost borders. This led to Hungary’s boss slowly shifting over to the communist side of things, something that really did not sit well with the nation.
Though there wasn’t much she could do as the Communist Party of Hungary came to power and became her new bosses, proclaiming that they would now be known as the Hungarian Soviet Republic. During a coup attempt they also took a series of actions known as the Red Terror, murdering several hundred people and alienating much of the population. In a bit of a domestic backlash her bosses quickly fled to Austria, leaving Hungary’s Budapest occupied by Romania.
Soon came the Conservative Royalists, also known as the Whites, to torture and execute the communist and leftist people as well as launch programs against the Jews and claiming them as the reason for all the difficulties facing Hungary’s people. This also drove Romania away from the lands, though they took to pillaging everything on their way, leaving Hungary in a pretty ravished state for quite some time.
1920 didn’t come with any better favor, particularly the Treaty of Trianon. For this treaty there was even more taken from Hungary, around seventy-two percent of pre-WWI lands being taken away and redistributed again. Though one of Hungary’s newer bosses was quick to contest for a ratification of the treaty by strengthening the waning economy and building more relations with stronger nations; much to Hungary’s chagrin of having to deal with some of the ones proposed. With the Great Depression in the United States, Hungary ended up being affected by the drop in the economy as well. This led to a lower standard of living for her people and politics moving more in favor to the right, leading to the First Jewish Law in 1938 which limited Jewish involvement in the economy. But it was quickly followed by the Second Jewish Law in which was a lot harsher and almost completely restricted their involvement, partly due to the government switching to a more totalitarian nature.
Then came World War II, though Hungary did not participate on the side of the Axis Powers until 1941 during the invasion of Yugoslavia and joining the side of the Axis during that process. In the same year Hungary joined in with Germany for Operation Barbarossa, an operation to invade Soviet Russia, leading to Hungary declaring war on Russia. In 1943 Hungary had a devastating loss at the river Don and the government began negotiating with the Allied Forces to negotiate surrender. Though this quickly lead to Germany occupying the country due to trying to surrender to the Allies. In 1944 Hungary’s boss attempted to get them out of the war, only to be met by Germany replacing the government with a puppet one, keeping the people loyal to Germany until the very end of the war. Hungary also experienced another win on the Eastern front with the Battle of Debrecen, but it was quickly followed by an invasion by Russia which led to the Battle of Budapest, the bloodiest siege of the war in which Russia took control of the area there after the unconditional surrender of the Hungarian and German troops fighting there. World War II for Hungary was ended with her unconditional surrender in February of 1945 which left the nation devastated as 60% of the economy was destroyed and several loses of human life following in that wake.
When Germany fell out of power Hungary was quickly occupied by Russia, leaving her to become a satellite state of the other nation and slowly being corrupted towards communism. Though the changed brought her a new boss it also left with more losses of life as several hundred of people were executed and even more imprisoned and some of Hungary’s best intellectuals and officials being in that group. For this reason Hungary is considered to have the harshest dictatorship imposed upon her in Europe, despite what she might like.
However, this did not last too long as Hungary gained yet another prime minister, one promising free elections and began to let several anti-communists out of jail, but it wasn’t to last as Russia quickly removed and replaced him for his actions. With the newest Soviet appoint Hungary’s people slowly became more and more frustrated at his actions and their war-torn status, leading them to start the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, one of which the nation was all too happy to support. This had them temporarily withdraw from the Warsaw Pact, but it did not last long as Russia quickly retaliated with military force, easily putting down the revolution. What they hadn’t counted on, though, was millions of people passing through Hungary’s borders for the brief time they were opened.
Hungary’s current boss is one that when he came to power quickly took down the revolutionaries, imprisoning and executing those who were considered as such. But in his rule Hungary’s people have prospered from a high standard of living and a lax restriction on travel.
As far as recent times she’s really become a bit more docile, biding her time unless situation calls for her to act aggressively. She knows she can not win a fight against her current benefactor and will not truly try unless she finds some sort of hole to exploit. Even then she has become somewhat paranoid with the recent threat upon the world, figuring that by keeping other nations at a distance that she could avoid any intentions of others trying to destroy her. But, even then, she has become far more wary of Russia and those close to him
History (just the updated part): A time of peace was not to be had as come 1914 everything fell apart with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. With Serbia’s actions a massive war broke out, the likes of which the world hadn’t seen before. Soon the battle erupted into what was considered a world war, Europe separating into two factions, the Axis Powers and the Central Powers. Hungary and Austria both sided with the Central Powers which consisted of Germany, Bulgaria, and Turkey. Most of the war was not a terribly big part of Hungarian history, though they continually tried to make progress to capture Italy. Though they could do no such thing due to the economic situation of Hungary deteriorating because of strikes in the factories as well as uprisings in the Hungarian military forces. Near the very end of the war, in 1918, Hungary’s union was dissolved with Austria, this leaving Hungary in something akin to ruin with uprisings and strikes continually going against what had been established.
Soon after this, things continued from bad to worse. The people took to revolting in Budapest, killing the current prime minister and driving the current king at the time to appoint a new prime minister in favor for the Entente powers and a leftist of the time. A little while later the parliament was dissolved and left the kingdom to become a republic, leaving the leftist prime minister as the provisional president of the new republic. During this time frame the government promised land reforms and free elections, but neither were carried out. This led to the king to relinquish his power of the throne.
In the same year, due to America’s president Woodrow Wilson and his pacifist stance, the current president for Hungary’s people took to disarming the military and taking a stance to outlaw all armed forces. Though this was a bad idea when soon after the nations around started arming themselves again. Soon enough the Entente powers began removing land from her, relocating it to different nations and leaving the nation weaker than before. Even during then, the government of the time tried to avoid too much removal and to keep the borders relatively untouched if they could convince their nation to remove herself from the company of both Austria and Germany, leaving her to secure as separate peace. Though, because of the union of Austria and Hungary previously the Entente considered her a part of the failure and demanded more to be taken, leading to France giving her a map consisting of what new boundaries were to be held.
In 1919 Hungary’s boss stepped down and handed over his power over to a coalition of Social Democrats and communists and the group quickly promised that Soviet Russia would help regain the lost borders. This led to Hungary’s boss slowly shifting over to the communist side of things, something that really did not sit well with the nation.
Though there wasn’t much she could do as the Communist Party of Hungary came to power and became her new bosses, proclaiming that they would now be known as the Hungarian Soviet Republic. During a coup attempt they also took a series of actions known as the Red Terror, murdering several hundred people and alienating much of the population. In a bit of a domestic backlash her bosses quickly fled to Austria, leaving Hungary’s Budapest occupied by Romania.
Soon came the Conservative Royalists, also known as the Whites, to torture and execute the communist and leftist people as well as launch programs against the Jews and claiming them as the reason for all the difficulties facing Hungary’s people. This also drove Romania away from the lands, though they took to pillaging everything on their way, leaving Hungary in a pretty ravished state for quite some time.
1920 didn’t come with any better favor, particularly the Treaty of Trianon. For this treaty there was even more taken from Hungary, around seventy-two percent of pre-WWI lands being taken away and redistributed again. Though one of Hungary’s newer bosses was quick to contest for a ratification of the treaty by strengthening the waning economy and building more relations with stronger nations; much to Hungary’s chagrin of having to deal with some of the ones proposed. With the Great Depression in the United States, Hungary ended up being affected by the drop in the economy as well. This led to a lower standard of living for her people and politics moving more in favor to the right, leading to the First Jewish Law in 1938 which limited Jewish involvement in the economy. But it was quickly followed by the Second Jewish Law in which was a lot harsher and almost completely restricted their involvement, partly due to the government switching to a more totalitarian nature.
Then came World War II, though Hungary did not participate on the side of the Axis Powers until 1941 during the invasion of Yugoslavia and joining the side of the Axis during that process. In the same year Hungary joined in with Germany for Operation Barbarossa, an operation to invade Soviet Russia, leading to Hungary declaring war on Russia. In 1943 Hungary had a devastating loss at the river Don and the government began negotiating with the Allied Forces to negotiate surrender. Though this quickly lead to Germany occupying the country due to trying to surrender to the Allies. In 1944 Hungary’s boss attempted to get them out of the war, only to be met by Germany replacing the government with a puppet one, keeping the people loyal to Germany until the very end of the war. Hungary also experienced another win on the Eastern front with the Battle of Debrecen, but it was quickly followed by an invasion by Russia which led to the Battle of Budapest, the bloodiest siege of the war in which Russia took control of the area there after the unconditional surrender of the Hungarian and German troops fighting there. World War II for Hungary was ended with her unconditional surrender in February of 1945 which left the nation devastated as 60% of the economy was destroyed and several loses of human life following in that wake.
When Germany fell out of power Hungary was quickly occupied by Russia, leaving her to become a satellite state of the other nation and slowly being corrupted towards communism. Though the changed brought her a new boss it also left with more losses of life as several hundred of people were executed and even more imprisoned and some of Hungary’s best intellectuals and officials being in that group. For this reason Hungary is considered to have the harshest dictatorship imposed upon her in Europe, despite what she might like.
However, this did not last too long as Hungary gained yet another prime minister, one promising free elections and began to let several anti-communists out of jail, but it wasn’t to last as Russia quickly removed and replaced him for his actions. With the newest Soviet appoint Hungary’s people slowly became more and more frustrated at his actions and their war-torn status, leading them to start the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, one of which the nation was all too happy to support. This had them temporarily withdraw from the Warsaw Pact, but it did not last long as Russia quickly retaliated with military force, easily putting down the revolution. What they hadn’t counted on, though, was millions of people passing through Hungary’s borders for the brief time they were opened.
Hungary’s current boss is one that when he came to power quickly took down the revolutionaries, imprisoning and executing those who were considered as such. But in his rule Hungary’s people have prospered from a high standard of living and a lax restriction on travel.