Starter quiz
- Write the missing word. A country controlled by or depending on a more powerful country is known as a ______ state.
- 'satellite' ✓
- Which of the following were Soviet-influenced communist countries at the start of the 1960s?
- Czechoslovakia ✓
- France
- Hungary ✓
- Yugoslavia
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- Which type of countries were members of the Warsaw Pact?
- capitalist countries
- communist countries ✓
- both capitalist and communist countries
- neither capitalist and communist countries
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- How did the USSR react to Imre Nagy's reforms in Hungary in 1956?
- did not react to the changes
- supported the changes
- opposed the changes ✓
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- Write the missing word. The Truman Doctrine promised American support for countries resisting ______ aggression.
- 'communist' ✓
- Starting with the earliest, sort the following events into chronological order.
- 1⇔NATO formed
- 2⇔West Germany joined NATO
- 3⇔Warsaw Pact formed
- 4⇔Hungary planned to leave the Warsaw Pact
- 5⇔Hungarian Uprising occurred
Exit quiz
- What is oppression?
- items purchased by individuals for their personal use and enjoyment
- unfair treatment that limits people's freedom ✓
- a word sometimes used an alternative to communism
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- Write the missing word. Czechoslovakia's economy prioritised heavy industry over the production of ______ goods.
- 'consumer' ✓
- Match each leader with the correct description of them.
- Leonid Brezhnev⇔leader of the USSR ✓
- Alexander Dubček⇔leader of Czechoslovakia after 1968 ✓
- Antonín Novotný⇔leader of Czechoslovakia before 1968 ✓
- What name is given to the period in early 1968 when Dubček introduced reforms in Czechoslovakia?
- 'Prague Spring' ✓
- Which statement is most accurate?
- During the Prague Spring, Czechoslovakia was liberalised ✓
- During the Prague Spring, Czechoslovakia became more oppressive
- During the Prague Spring, Czechoslovakia hardly changed
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- Starting with the earliest, sort the following events into chronological order.
- 1⇔Failure of Novotný's New Economic Plan
- 2⇔Student protests take place in Prague
- 3⇔Dubček challenged Novotný's power
- 4⇔Brezhnev dropped his support for Novotný
- 5⇔Dubček became leader of the Czechoslovakian Communist Party
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Key learning points
- There were many problems for people living under communist rule in Czechoslovakia.
- In the late 1960s, protests began to spread in Czechoslovakia.
- Alexander Dubček became leader of Czechoslovakia at the start of 1968.
- Dubček introduced liberalising reforms known as the Prague Spring.
- Dubček considered reform necessary to preserve communist rule.
Common misconception
Dubček's reforms demonstrate that he was not a communist.
Dubček did want to liberalise politics and the economy in Czechoslovakia but he was still a communist. He considered these reforms necessary to ensure that a communist government could survive without being overthrown.
Keywords
Satellite state - a country controlled by or depending on a more powerful country
Oppression - unfair treatment that limits people's freedom
Consumer goods - items purchased by individuals for their personal use and enjoyment
Socialism - a word sometimes used as an alternative to communism
Liberalised - to make laws and systems less strict
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