Prague Spring

Prague Spring

Causes
1. The policy of détente encouraged the uprising
  1. Detente is a term usually associated with the relations between America, Russia and China; permanent relaxation in international affairs
2. Romania had also broken free of Russian control, and was improving relations with the West.
3. Czechs hated Russian control
  1. Russian control of the economy, which had made Czechoslovakia poor.
  2. The censorship and lack of freedom.
4. Some Czechs thought the USA would help them.
Consequences
1. Czechoslovakia returned to communist control
  1. Half the leadership of the KSC were arrested
    1. Mauricio Cabrera Mtz
      1. References
        http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/ir2/czechoslovakia1968rev1.shtml
        http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/prague_spring_1968.htm
  2. Russian troops were stationed
2. Russia stayed in control behind the Iron Curtain
  1. The Brezhnev Doctrine stated that Iron Curtain countries would not be allowed to abandon communism, "even if it meant a third world war"
3. Increase of the Cold War
  1. People in the West were horrified and so were many communist countries, especially Romania and Yugoslavia.
Timeline
1. Writers and students complain about the bad economy
2. But when Antonin Novotny, the Czechoslovak president, asked Leonid Brezhnev, the Soviet leader, for help, Brezhnev did not support him.
3. Novotny fell from power and on 5 January 1968, Alexandr Dubcek - a reformer - took over as leader of the Communist Party (KSC).
4. In April 1968, Dubcek's government announced an Action Plan "new form of socialism" - it removed state controls over industry and allowed freedom of speech.
5. For four months there was freedom in Czechoslovakia- it is called the Prague Spring. But, then Dubcek said that support democratic communism and other went angry. Revolution went out of control
6. Also, Dubcek stressed that Czechoslovakia would stay in the Warsaw Pact, but in August, President Tito of Yugoslavia, a country not in the Warsaw Pact, visited Prague.
7. Meeting in Bratislava on 3 August 1968, Brezhnev read a letter from some Czechoslovakian Communists asking for help. He announced the Brezhnev Doctrine
8. On 20 August 1968, 500,000 Warsaw Pact troops invaded Czechoslovakia. Dubcek and three other leaders were arrested and sent to Moscow
9. The Czechoslovakians did not fight the Russians. Instead, they stood in front of the tanks, and put flowers in the soldiers' hair. Jan Palach burned himself to death in protest.
10. Brezhnev put in Gustav Husak, a supporter of Russia, as leader of the KSC.
Characters
1. Antonin Novotny, the Czechoslovak presiden
2. Leonid Brezhnev, the Soviet leader
3. Alexandr Dubcek, a reformer
4. Gustav Husak, a supporter of Russia
5. President Josif Broz Tito of Yugoslavia

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