Cold War Prague Spring Narrative Account

Question 1

PRAGUE SPRING P1

When did Dubcek become leader of Czech?

Answer 1

January 1968.

Question 2

PRAGUE SPRING P1

What was Dubcek’s main overarching intention?

Answer 2

To create socialism with a human face.

Question 3

PRAGUE SPRING P1

What were the two things Dubcek wanted to do?

Answer 3

Wanted to make communism more democratic.

Wanted to improve people’s lives.

Question 4

PRAGUE SPRING P1

What were the 3 reforms Dubcek made?

Answer 4

Greater freedom of speech

Ending censorship

Reducing power of the secret police.

Question 5

PRAGUE SPRING P1

Were these reforms popular with the people?

Answer 5

YES

Question 6

PRAGUE SPRING P1

What two groups of people was it especially popular with?

Answer 6

Students

Intellectuals

Question 7

PRAGUE SPRING P1

What had students and intellectuals grown frustrated with?

Answer 7

Harshness of Soviet-style communism.

Question 8

PRAGUE SPRING P2

Did Brezhnev initially allow the reforms?

Answer 8

Yes

Question 9

PRAGUE SPRING P2

Why did other Warsaw countries feel alarmed?

Answer 9

Feared it would weaken there control.

Question 10

PRAGUE SPRING P2

What did Brezhnev warn to Dubcek?

Answer 10

Warned multiple times to halt reforms.

Question 11

PRAGUE SPRING P2

Did Dubcek listen to Brezhnev’s warnings?

Answer 11

No

Question 12

PRAGUE SPRING P2

Who invaded Czechoslovakia?

Answer 12

USSR and Warsaw Pact troops.

Question 13

PRAGUE SPRING P2

When was Czechoslovakia invaded?

Answer 13

20th August 1968

Question 14

PRAGUE SPRING P2

Was there armed resistance?

Answer 14

No

Question 15

PRAGUE SPRING P2

What type of resistance was there?

Answer 15

Passive Resistance

Question 16

PRAGUE SPRING P2

Two examples of passive resistance shown?

Answer 16

Standing in front of tanks

Painting slogans

Question 17

PRAGUE SPRING P2

What happened to Dubcek?

Answer 17

Arrested and sent to Moscow.

Question 18

PRAGUE SPRING P3

What did the invasion end?

Answer 18

Prague Spring

Question 19

PRAGUE SPRING P3

What did the invasion lead to?

Answer 19

Return to soviet style communism.

Question 20

PRAGUE SPRING P3

What happened to Dubcek?

Answer 20

Forced to resign.

Question 21

PRAGUE SPRING P3

What was restored?

Answer 21

Censorship and repression.

Question 22

PRAGUE SPRING P3

What did Brezhnev announce a few months later?

Answer 22

Brezhnev Doctrine.

Question 23

PRAGUE SPRING P3

What did the Brezhnev Doctrine state?

Answer 23

The USSR had the right to invade any communist country where socialism was under threat.

Question 24

PRAGUE SPRING P3

What did this event show?

Answer 24

Limits of reform in Eastern Europe.

Question 25

PRAGUE SPRING P3 What did this event do for soviet control?

Answer 25

Increased