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Mind Map by Mauricio Cabrera, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Mauricio Cabrera
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Prague Spring
- Causes
- The policy of détente encouraged the uprising
- Detente is a term usually associated with the
relations between America, Russia and China;
permanent relaxation in international affairs
- Detente is a term usually associated with the
relations between America, Russia and China;
permanent relaxation in international affairs
- Romania had also broken free of
Russian control, and was improving
relations with the West.
- Czechs hated Russian control
- Russian control of the
economy, which had made
Czechoslovakia poor.
- The censorship and lack of
freedom.
- Russian control of the
economy, which had made
Czechoslovakia poor.
- Some Czechs thought the USA would help them.
- The policy of détente encouraged the uprising
- Consequences
- Czechoslovakia returned to communist control
- Half the leadership of the
KSC were arrested
- Mauricio Cabrera Mtz
- References
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/ir2/czechoslovakia1968rev1.shtml
- http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/prague_spring_1968.htm
- http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/prague_spring_1968.htm
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/ir2/czechoslovakia1968rev1.shtml
- References
- Mauricio Cabrera Mtz
- Russian troops were stationed
- Half the leadership of the
KSC were arrested
- Russia stayed in control behind the
Iron Curtain
- The Brezhnev Doctrine stated that Iron
Curtain countries would not be allowed to
abandon communism, "even if it meant a
third world war"
- The Brezhnev Doctrine stated that Iron
Curtain countries would not be allowed to
abandon communism, "even if it meant a
third world war"
- Increase of the Cold War
- People in the West were horrified and so were
many communist countries, especially Romania
and Yugoslavia.
- People in the West were horrified and so were
many communist countries, especially Romania
and Yugoslavia.
- Czechoslovakia returned to communist control
- Timeline
- Writers and students complain
about the bad economy
- But when Antonin Novotny, the
Czechoslovak president, asked Leonid
Brezhnev, the Soviet leader, for help,
Brezhnev did not support him.
- Novotny fell from power and on 5 January 1968,
Alexandr Dubcek - a reformer - took over as leader of
the Communist Party (KSC).
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- Meeting in Bratislava on 3 August 1968, Brezhnev read a
letter from some Czechoslovakian Communists asking for
help. He announced the Brezhnev Doctrine
- On 20 August 1968, 500,000 Warsaw Pact troops
invaded Czechoslovakia. Dubcek and three other
leaders were arrested and sent to Moscow
- 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.
- Brezhnev put in Gustav Husak, a
supporter of Russia, as leader of the
KSC.
- Writers and students complain
about the bad economy
- Characters
- Antonin Novotny, the
Czechoslovak presiden
- Leonid Brezhnev, the
Soviet leader
- Alexandr Dubcek, a reformer
- Gustav Husak, a
supporter of Russia
- President Josif Broz Tito of Yugoslavia
- Antonin Novotny, the
Czechoslovak presiden
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