Daily Quiz for August 9, 2008

Moscow's announced concessions to Hungarian revolutionaries. On October 31, 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower praised the promise by Moscow made the previous day of major concessions to Hungarians in revolt as &#171the dawning of a new day» in Eastern Europe. Anti-government demonstrations in Budapest a week earlier had forced a reshuffling of the Hungarian government and demands that the new government denounce the Warsaw Pact and seek liberation from Soviet domination. While Moscow had promised concessions, Soviet troops and tanks assaulted Budapest on November 4, crushing the Hungarian revolt and installing an all-Communist government.