Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Download
Faster access than browser!
 

Removal of Hungary's border fence with Austria

Index Removal of Hungary's border fence with Austria

The removal of Hungary's border fence with Austria occurred in 1989 during the collapse of communism in Hungary, which was part of a broad wave of revolutions in various communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe. [1]

29 relations: Alois Mock, Austria, Austria–Hungary relations, BBC, Berlin Wall, Central and Eastern Europe, Cold War, Communist state, East Germany, Electric fence, End of communism in Hungary (1989), Graz, Gyula Horn, Hungarian border barrier, Hungarian People's Republic, Inner German border, Iron Curtain, Le Monde, List of Ministers of Foreign Affairs (Austria), Los Angeles Times, Minister of Foreign Affairs (Hungary), Pan-European Picnic, Revolutions of 1989, Sinatra Doctrine, Sopron, Soviet Union, West Berlin, West Germany, World War II.

Alois Mock

Alois Mock (10 June 1934 – 1 June 2017) was a politician and member of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP).

New!!: Removal of Hungary's border fence with Austria and Alois Mock · See more »

Austria

Austria (Österreich), officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich), is a federal republic and a landlocked country of over 8.8 million people in Central Europe.

New!!: Removal of Hungary's border fence with Austria and Austria · See more »

Austria–Hungary relations

Austria–Hungary relations are the neighborly relations between Austria and Hungary, two member states of the European Union.

New!!: Removal of Hungary's border fence with Austria and Austria–Hungary relations · See more »

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

New!!: Removal of Hungary's border fence with Austria and BBC · See more »

Berlin Wall

The Berlin Wall (Berliner Mauer) was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989.

New!!: Removal of Hungary's border fence with Austria and Berlin Wall · See more »

Central and Eastern Europe

Central and Eastern Europe, abbreviated CEE, is a term encompassing the countries in Central Europe (the Visegrád Group), the Baltic states, and Southeastern Europe, usually meaning former communist states from the Eastern bloc (Warsaw Pact) in Europe.

New!!: Removal of Hungary's border fence with Austria and Central and Eastern Europe · See more »

Cold War

The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its satellite states) and powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others).

New!!: Removal of Hungary's border fence with Austria and Cold War · See more »

Communist state

A Communist state (sometimes referred to as workers' state) is a state that is administered and governed by a single party, guided by Marxist–Leninist philosophy, with the aim of achieving communism.

New!!: Removal of Hungary's border fence with Austria and Communist state · See more »

East Germany

East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; Deutsche Demokratische Republik, DDR), existed from 1949 to 1990 and covers the period when the eastern portion of Germany existed as a state that was part of the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War period.

New!!: Removal of Hungary's border fence with Austria and East Germany · See more »

Electric fence

An electric fence is a barrier that uses electric shocks to deter animals from crossing a boundary.

New!!: Removal of Hungary's border fence with Austria and Electric fence · See more »

End of communism in Hungary (1989)

The Communist rule in the Hungarian People's Republic came to an end in 1989.

New!!: Removal of Hungary's border fence with Austria and End of communism in Hungary (1989) · See more »

Graz

Graz is the capital of Styria and the second-largest city in Austria after Vienna.

New!!: Removal of Hungary's border fence with Austria and Graz · See more »

Gyula Horn

Gyula Horn (5 July 1932 – 19 June 2013) was a Hungarian politician who served as the third Prime Minister of the Republic of Hungary from 1994 to 1998.

New!!: Removal of Hungary's border fence with Austria and Gyula Horn · See more »

Hungarian border barrier

In 2015, Hungary built a border barrier on its border with Serbia and Croatia.

New!!: Removal of Hungary's border fence with Austria and Hungarian border barrier · See more »

Hungarian People's Republic

The Hungarian People's Republic (Magyar Népköztársaság) was a one-party socialist republic (communist state) from 20 August 1949 to 23 October 1989.

New!!: Removal of Hungary's border fence with Austria and Hungarian People's Republic · See more »

Inner German border

The inner German border (innerdeutsche Grenze or deutsch-deutsche Grenze; initially also Zonengrenze) was the border between the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) and the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG, West Germany) from 1949 to 1990.

New!!: Removal of Hungary's border fence with Austria and Inner German border · See more »

Iron Curtain

The Iron Curtain was the name for the boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991.

New!!: Removal of Hungary's border fence with Austria and Iron Curtain · See more »

Le Monde

Le Monde (The World) is a French daily afternoon newspaper founded by Hubert Beuve-Méry at the request of Charles de Gaulle (as Chairman of the Provisional Government of the French Republic) on 19 December 1944, shortly after the Liberation of Paris, and published continuously since its first edition.

New!!: Removal of Hungary's border fence with Austria and Le Monde · See more »

List of Ministers of Foreign Affairs (Austria)

Below is a list of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Austria.

New!!: Removal of Hungary's border fence with Austria and List of Ministers of Foreign Affairs (Austria) · See more »

Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

New!!: Removal of Hungary's border fence with Austria and Los Angeles Times · See more »

Minister of Foreign Affairs (Hungary)

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary (Magyarország külügyminisztere) is a member of the Hungarian cabinet and the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

New!!: Removal of Hungary's border fence with Austria and Minister of Foreign Affairs (Hungary) · See more »

Pan-European Picnic

The Pan-European Picnic (Paneuropäisches Picknick; páneurópai piknik) was a peace demonstration held on the Austrian-Hungarian border near Sopron, Hungary on 19 August 1989, the day before the Hungarian holiday commemorating Stephen I of Hungary.

New!!: Removal of Hungary's border fence with Austria and Pan-European Picnic · See more »

Revolutions of 1989

The Revolutions of 1989 formed part of a revolutionary wave in the late 1980s and early 1990s that resulted in the end of communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe and beyond.

New!!: Removal of Hungary's border fence with Austria and Revolutions of 1989 · See more »

Sinatra Doctrine

"Sinatra Doctrine" was the name that the Soviet government of Mikhail Gorbachev used jokingly to describe its policy of allowing neighboring Warsaw Pact states to determine their own internal affairs.

New!!: Removal of Hungary's border fence with Austria and Sinatra Doctrine · See more »

Sopron

Sopron (Ödenburg, Šopron) is a city in Hungary on the Austrian border, near the Lake Neusiedl/Lake Fertő.

New!!: Removal of Hungary's border fence with Austria and Sopron · See more »

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.

New!!: Removal of Hungary's border fence with Austria and Soviet Union · See more »

West Berlin

West Berlin (Berlin (West) or colloquially West-Berlin) was a political enclave which comprised the western part of Berlin during the years of the Cold War.

New!!: Removal of Hungary's border fence with Austria and West Berlin · See more »

West Germany

West Germany is the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; Bundesrepublik Deutschland, BRD) in the period between its creation on 23 May 1949 and German reunification on 3 October 1990.

New!!: Removal of Hungary's border fence with Austria and West Germany · See more »

World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

New!!: Removal of Hungary's border fence with Austria and World War II · See more »

Redirects here:

Removal of Hungary's Border Fence, Removal of Hungary's border fence.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Removal_of_Hungary's_border_fence_with_Austria

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »