Czechoslavakia Flashcards
when did writes and students complain?
1968
what did writers and students complain about
lack of freedom and that the economy was only serving needs of the SU and their hard line leader Antonin Novotny
how did brezhnev respond to the complaints?
by backing new leader Alexander Dubcek
What did dubcek allow to challenge
allowed challengeing of communist policy by ending censorship and led to 4 month period of open crticism called the “Prague spring”
what was the prague spring
4 months of open critiscm
people verbally attacked soviet syle communist leadership,
resulted in brezchnev under pressure from hardline leaders in europe to remove dubcek and end prague spring
what methods did brezhnev trya, and what worked (to remove dubcek)
carrying out border excercises, it didnt work so he solves it by invading czech with 100,000 warsaw pact troops
what happens to dubcek after czechoslovakia is invaded by troops
hes taken to moscow and forced to sign moscow protocol
what was the moscow protocol
it committed dubcek to protecting communism, which meant reasserting soviet control over this satellite state
what is the brezhnev doctrrine
the brezhnev doctrine - warning that soviets would od whatever to maintain influence in eastern europe
what did all this lead to (consequcnes of czecho-)
brezhnev doctrine and the word being shocked at soviet agression to one of its allies
communist parties in western europe distanced from su
countries like romanania and ygoslavia broke away and worked on relationship with china
