This happened in Hungary because all the big things that happened in this year had Hungary. They were the people demanding this is 1956!.
In English: Relations between the Soviet Union and the United States were driven by a complex interplay of ideological, political, and economic factors, which led to shifts between cautious cooperation and often bitter superpower rivalry over the years.
Cold War, the open yet restricted rivalry that developed after World War II between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies. The Cold War was waged on political, economic, and propaganda fronts and had only limited recourse to weapons.
En Espanol: Las relaciones entre la Unión Soviética y Estados Unidos fueron impulsadas por una compleja interacción de factores ideológicos, políticos y económicos, que llevaron a cambios entre una cooperación cautelosa y una rivalidad entre superpotencias a menudo amarga a lo largo de los años.
Guerra Fría, la rivalidad abierta pero restringida que se desarrolló después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial entre los Estados Unidos y la Unión Soviética y sus respectivos aliados. La Guerra Fría se libró en los frentes político, económico y propagandístico y tuvo un recurso limitado a las armas.
The Alien and Sedition Acts (1798) were four laws passed by Federalists that restricted the activities of foreign residents in the country, allowed the government to deport foreigners seen as "dangerous", made it difficult for immigrants to vote, requiring them to reside for 14 years in the U.S. to become eligible to vote, and it prohibited public opposition to the government.
1. What led to the passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts?
The Acts were passed after the diplomatic incident called "XYZ Affair" that almost involved the United States and France in war. Facing French foreign threat, the Federalist President Adams created the acts as a way to prevent subversion in the United States against governmental measures.
2. What made them so controversial?
The Acts, especially the Sedition Act, were so controversial because it violated people's rights of freedom of speech and of the press protected under the First Amendment. Under the acts, anyone who wrote, printed, uttered or published any writing seen as false, scandalous and malicious against the government could be imprisoned or would have to pay fines.