Hungary was a country in Eastern Europe and was a member of the Warsaw Pact which had been set up in 1955. The Soviet Union (USSR) saw Eastern Europe as a 'buffer-zone' of land which would protect ...

the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, on June 28, 1914, few could have known it would reverberate for four years of brutal war, leading to the fall of three European empires and revolution in ...