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Question 1
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Year of the Prague Spring
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1953
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1956
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1968
Question 2
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Much ‘disliked’ communist leader of Czechoslovakia
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Imre Nagy
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Alexander Dubcek
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Anton Novotny
Question 3
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Soviet leader at the time.
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Stalin
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Khrushchev
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Brezhnev
Question 4
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Czech economic ‘complaints’ about communist rule.
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Economic exploitation by USSR
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Shortages of basic foodstuff
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Failure of communist economic policies
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Unable to sell surpluses
Question 5
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Czech political ‘discontent’ about communist ‘rule’
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Oppression by secret police (StB)
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Lack of reforms in the wake of ‘DeStalinisation’
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Lack of ‘free speech’
Question 6
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Associated with the StB (Secret Police)
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Forced confessions via - torture, blackmail + use of psychoactive drugs.
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Surveillance- including phone tapping + interception of private mail + house searches.
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Trial by jury
Question 7
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Brezhnev’s ‘initial response’ to calls for reform in January 1968 (after peaceful student protests)
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Replaced Novotny with Dubcek
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Sent in tanks
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Organised Warsaw pact manoeuvres on Czech borders
Question 8
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Calls of reform were known as….
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Socialism with an iron fist
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Socialism with a human face
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The death of socialism
Question 9
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Associated with Dubceks’s reforms
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Freedom of speech (lifting of censorship)
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Leaving the Warsaw Pact
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Pursuing an independent foreign policy
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Democratic socialism
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Legalising political parties
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Reducing powers of the StB
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Limited free market capitalism
Question 10
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The communist leadership of Poland and East Germany supported Dubcek’s reforms
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- True
- False
Question 11
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The ‘invasion’…
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August 20 1968
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2000 troops
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2000 tanks
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500,000 Warsaw Pact troops (from 5 countries)
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July 20 1968
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Was the largest deployment of troops since WWII
Question 12
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How did the Czech’s respond to the invasion?
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Organised anti-soviet militias
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With Passive Resistance
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Czech army ordered to resist the invasion
Question 13
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Dubcek’s fate
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Arrested and flown to Moscow
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Arrested and shot
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Ordered to reverse the reforms
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Replaced by Gustav Husak (but not until April 1969)
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