Hungary
Budapest
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- …1939Kingdom of Hungary
- simplified version (without arms)
Course of events
- 23 August 1939
Neutral / non-belligerent
Non-belligerent, revisionist, aligned with the Axis.
- 20 November 1940
Axis powers & allies
Joined the Tripartite Pact; war against the USSR from 27 June 1941. Occupied by Germany 19 March 1944.
- 4 April 1945
Under Allied occupation
End of fighting in Hungary; Soviet occupation under the Allied Control Commission.
Events involving this country
- 30 Aug 1940Second Vienna Award
- 27 Sept 1940Tripartite Pact
- 6 Apr 1941Invasion of Yugoslavia
- 22 Jun 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 28 Jun 1942Case Blue — German summer offensive 1942
- 17 Jul 1942Battle of Stalingrad
- 19 Mar 1944German occupation of Hungary (Operation Margarethe)
- 29 Dec 1944Siege of Budapest
- 16 Mar 1945Vienna offensive
Data completeness: borders c. 1938, status at country level; occupation zones, annexations and front lines as approximate snapshots. Units and offensives: selected, incomplete sets; archive: only items with a confirmed licence, still being added.