Czechoslovakia

Question 1

The causes of the Soviet invasion of czech (not)

Answer 1

USA distracted by Vietnam)

• This meant that it would be easy to stop this reform from happening
• no intervening from west or support

Prague Spring 1968)

• Dubcek = “Socialism with a human face”
• 10yr political program
• more freedom (free press, free religion)
• More trade with west
• —>Brezhnev thought reforms = leaving Eastern Bloc
• western-style democracy

Question 2

Impact of czech, including the Brezhnev Doctrine.

Answer 2

USSR strengthened)
—Brezhnev Doctrine of Sept 1968—
-country independent = USSR impose communism by force
-Right to invade
-independence = threat to Warsaw Pact and Soviet control
-redefined communism as a one-party system + had to stay in WARSAW pact
-showed other countries that attempting to leave warsaw would result in invasion
crushed ‘socialism with a human face’ by dubzec

Fall out with China)
who were the USSR to see if a country is doing communism right
(Zedong = china leader)