Hungarian State Security Police

Examples of Hungarian State Security Police in the following topics:

• Tension with the USSR

  • After the elections of 1945, the portfolio of the Interior Ministry, which oversaw the Hungarian State Security Police (Államvédelmi Hatóság, later known as the ÁVH), was forcibly transferred from the Independent Smallholders Party to a nominee of the Communist Party.
  • Hungary became a communist state under the severely authoritarian leadership of Mátyás Rákosi.
  • From 1950 to 1952, the Security Police forcibly relocated thousands of people to obtain property and housing for the Working People's Party members.
  • Compulsory subscriptions to state bonds further reduced personal income.
  • Although John Foster Dulles, the United States Secretary of State recommended on October 24 for the United Nations Security Council to convene to discuss the situation in Hungary, little immediate action was taken to introduce a resolution, in part because other world events unfolded the day after the peaceful interlude started, when allied collusion started the Suez Crisis.

• Providing National Security

  • National security is the protection of the state through a variety of means that include military might, economic power, and diplomacy.
  • National security, a concept which developed mainly in the United States after World War II, is the protection of the state and its citizens through a variety of means, including military might, economic power, diplomacy, and power projection.
  • using counterintelligence services or secret police to protect the nation from internal threats.
  • There are a variety of governmental departments and agencies within the United States that are responsible for developing policies to ensure national security.
  • The Central Intelligence Agency is part of the Executive Office of the President of the United States.

• Containment to Rollback

  • Although President Dwight Eisenhower (1953–61) toyed with the idea of rollback, he refused to intervene in the Hungarian Uprising of 1956.
  • Douglas MacArthur, moved the United States toward a stronger commitment to the containment policy.
  • Eisenhower was elected, he appointed Dulles as secretary of state.
  • However, Eisenhower's decision not to intervene during the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 made containment a bipartisan doctrine.
  • The Eisenhower Administration adopted containment through a National Security Council document in October 1953; this effectively abandoned the rollback efforts in Europe.

• Afghanistan

  • The relationship between the United States and Afghanistan has become an integral aspect of U.S. foreign policy.
  • The relationship between the United States and Afghanistan has become an integral aspect of U.S. foreign policy.
  • Afghanistan and the United States resumed diplomatic ties in late 2001.
  • The United States has taken a leading role in the overall reconstruction of Afghanistan by investing billions of dollars in national roads, government and educational institutions, and the Afghan military and national police force.
  • Concerns remain regarding the Taliban insurgency, the role of Pakistan in training those insurgents, the drug trade, the effectiveness of Afghan security forces, and the risk of Afghanistan degenerating into a failed state after the withdrawal.

• Containment in Foreign Policy

  • State Department asked George F.
  • Established by the National Security Act of 1947, the CIA conducted espionage in foreign lands, some of it visible, more of it secret.
  • Truman approved a classified statement of containment policy called NSC 20/4 in November 1948, the first comprehensive statement of security policy ever created by the United States.
  • The Soviet Union first nuclear test in 1949 prompted the National Security Council to formulate a revised security doctrine.
  • Dulles was named Secretary of State by incoming President Dwight Eisenhower, but Eisenhower's decision not to intervene during the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 made containment a bipartisan doctrine.

• Containment

  • Although President Dwight Eisenhower (1953–61) toyed with the rival doctrine of rollback, he refused to intervene in the Hungarian Uprising of 1956.
  • President Ronald Reagan (1981–89), denouncing the Soviet state as an "evil empire," escalated the Cold War and promoted rollback.
  • Established by the National Security Act of 1947, the CIA conducted espionage in foreign lands, some of it visible, more of it secret.
  • The Soviet Union's first nuclear test in 1949 prompted the National Security Council to formulate a revised security doctrine.

• Politics and the Great Recession of 2008

  • Beginning February 26, 2009 an Economic Intelligence Briefing was added to the daily intelligence briefings prepared for the President of the United States.
  • The bursting of the U.S. housing bubble, which peaked in 2006, caused the values of securities tied to U.S. real estate prices to plummet, damaging financial institutions globally.
  • In January 2009, the government leaders of Iceland were forced to call elections two years early after the people of Iceland staged mass protests and clashed with the police due to the government's handling of the economy.
  • The crowd moved to the building of the parliament and attempted to force their way into it, but were repelled by the state's police.
  • On September 11, a pro-independence march, which in the past had never drawn more than 50,000 people, pulled in a crowd estimated by city police at 1.5 million..

• Conclusion: Truman and the Beginning of the Cold War

  • The Cold War was a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others) and powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its satellite states).
  • Meanwhile, the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was stopped by the Soviets.
  • The act also created the CIA and the National Security Council.
  • In 1952, Truman secretly consolidated and empowered the cryptologic elements of the United States by creating the National Security Agency (NSA).
  • President Truman signs the National Security Act Amendment of 1949 with guests in the Oval Office.

• A Grinding War Against Iran

  • The purpose was to secure Iranian oil fields and ensure Allied supply lines for the Soviets fighting against Axis forces on the Eastern Front.
  • The German Army was steadily advancing through the Soviet Union and a "Persian Corridor" was seen as one of the few ways for the Allies to get desperately needed Lend-Lease supplies to the Soviets from the United States.
  • The new Iranian Prime Minister, Fourughi, agreed that the German Minister and his staff should leave Tehran, that the German, Italian, Hungarian, and Romanian legations should close, and that all remaining German nationals be handed over to the British and Soviet authorities.
  • Soviet troops did not withdraw from Iran proper until May, 1946, following Iran's official complaint to the newly-formed United Nations Security Council.

• The Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars

  • The First Bulgarian Empire was a medieval Bulgarian state that existed in southeastern Europe between the 7th and 11th centuries AD.
  • There they secured Byzantine recognition of their right to settle south of the Danube by defeating — possibly with the help of local South Slavic tribes — the Byzantine army led by Constantine IV.
  • As the state solidified its position in the Balkans, it entered into a centuries-long interaction, sometimes friendly and sometimes hostile, with the Byzantine Empire.
  • The traditional struggle with the See of Rome continued through the Macedonian period, spurred by the question of religious supremacy over the newly Christianised state of Bulgaria.
  • Ending 80 years of peace between the two states, the powerful Bulgarian tsar Simeon I invaded in 894 but was pushed back by the Byzantines, who used their fleet to sail up the Black Sea to attack the Bulgarian rear, enlisting the support of the Hungarians.