Starter quiz
- Write the missing word. Czechoslovakia was a Soviet ______ state.
- 'satellite' ✓
- Write the misisng word. In the early 1960s, there were frequent shortages of ______ goods in Czechoslovakia.
- 'consumer' ✓
- Who became leader of Czechoslovakia in January 1968?
- Antonín Novotný
- Alexander Dubček ✓
- Leonid Brezhnev
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- What name is given to the period in early 1968 when Dubček introduced reforms in Czechoslovakia?
- Prague Spring ✓
- Pargue Summer
- Prague Autumn
- Prague Winter
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- Write the missing word. Dubček's reforms were described as '______ with a human face'.
- 'socialism' ✓
- Which of the following was not a reform made by Dubček during the Prague Spring?
- beginning of a 10-year plan to make Czechoslovakia democratic
- Czechoslovakian exit from the Warsaw Pact ✓
- end of press censorship
- increased trade with the West
- reduction in the powers of the State Security (StB) secret police
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Exit quiz
- Which military alliance was made up of Eastern European communist states?
- 'Warsaw Pact' ✓
- Which communist countries supported Dubček's reforms during the Prague Spring?
- East Germany ✓
- Poland
- Romania
- USSR
- Yugoslavia ✓
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- How many troops invaded Czechoslovakia in August 1968?
- '500 000' ✓
- What war was the US fighting at the same time as the invasion of Czechoslovakia?
- Second World War
- Korean War
- Vietnam War ✓
- Gulf War
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- Why did a meeting between Alexander Dubček and the Yugoslav leader Josip Tito increase Soviet concerns about Czechoslovakia?
- Yugoslavia was a member of NATO.
- Yugoslavia was not a member of the Warsaw Pact. ✓
- Yugolsavia had stopped being communist.
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- Starting with the earliest, sort the following events into chronological order.
- 1⇔Warsaw Pact leaders put pressure on Brezhnev to put an end to Dubček's reforms.
- 2⇔Dubček hosted a visit from Tito, leader of Yugoslavia.
- 3⇔500 000 troops invaded Czechoslovakia.
- 4⇔Ordinary people built barricades to resist the invasion.
- 5⇔Dubček is replaced as leader by Husák.
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Key learning points
- Alexander Dubček's Prague Spring reforms were seen as a threat by other Warsaw Pact leaders.
- The USSR worried that Czechoslovakia might leave the Warsaw Pact.
- The USSR led an invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968.
- The Prague Spring reforms were overturned and Dubček was replaced with Gustáv Husák.
- The West opposed the invasion but was unwilling to fight over Czechoslovakia.
Common misconception
The Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia created the risk of war between the superpowers.
The USA opposed the invasion but was unwilling to become involved in a military conflict involving the USSR and so limited its oppositions to criticism rather than taking steps to protect Czechoslovakia.
Keywords
Warsaw pact - a military alliance of Eastern European countries led by the Soviet Union during the Cold War
Barricade - something that is quickly put across a road or entrance to prevent people from going past
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