NewsTracker Answers for week of Aug. 01, 2022

Q: Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban faced backlash after a speech arguing that Europeans should not “become people’s of mixed race.” But, the far-right politician was still scheduled to speak this week to U.S. conservatives meeting in Dallas. Where is Hungary?

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Q: Orban’s comments came during an annual address to members of the Hungarian minority in what country on Hungary’s eastern border?

A. Croatia

B. Romania

C. Serbia

D. Slovakia

B. Hungary is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and Slovenia to the southwest, and Austria to the west.

Q: After Orban’s speech, one of his long-time advisers quit and called the comments “a pure Nazi text worthy of Goebbels” (Germany’s propaganda chief from 1933 to 1945). Hungary and Romania both entered World War II to help invade which nation?

A. Germany

B. France

C. Poland

D. Soviet Union

D. Hungary and Romania entered the war as German allies in 1941 when Nazi forces invaded the Soviet Union. Hungarian and Romanian officials also helped Nazis round up hundreds of thousands of Jewish families who were murdered during the Holocaust.

Q: After World War II, Hungary and many of its neighbors became “satellite states” of which nation?

A. Germany

B. France

C. Soviet Union

D. United States

C. After Soviet troops defeated German forces in Eastern and Central Europe, the Soviet Union set up communist regimes in Hungary and seven other European countries. These satellite states were formally independent, but under heavy political, economic, and military influence by the Soviets.

Q: Many U.S. conservatives have applauded Orban’s opposition to immigration, homosexual rights and “progressive liberals.” The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) invited Orban to be a keynote speaker in Dallas after a May CPAC conference in Hungary’s capital ...

A. Belgrade

B. Bratislava

C. Bucharest

D. Budapest

D. The two-day meeting in Budapest was the first time CPAC met in Europe. Belgrade is the capital of Serbia; Bratislava is the capital of Slovakia; and Bucharest is the capital of Romania. While many U.S. conservatives like Orban, some are wary of his support for Russian President Vladimir Putin, a former Soviet spy.