The Prague Spring

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iGCSE History Test sobre The Prague Spring, creado por Drew Bott el 18/12/2023.
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Pregunta 1

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Year of the Prague Spring
Respuesta
  • 1953
  • 1956
  • 1968

Pregunta 2

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Much ‘disliked’ communist leader of Czechoslovakia
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  • Imre Nagy
  • Alexander Dubcek
  • Anton Novotny

Pregunta 3

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Soviet leader at the time.
Respuesta
  • Stalin
  • Khrushchev
  • Brezhnev

Pregunta 4

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Czech economic ‘complaints’ about communist rule.
Respuesta
  • Economic exploitation by USSR
  • Shortages of basic foodstuff
  • Failure of communist economic policies
  • Unable to sell surpluses

Pregunta 5

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Czech political ‘discontent’ about communist ‘rule’
Respuesta
  • Oppression by secret police (StB)
  • Lack of reforms in the wake of ‘DeStalinisation’
  • Lack of ‘free speech’

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Associated with the StB (Secret Police)
Respuesta
  • Forced confessions via - torture, blackmail + use of psychoactive drugs.
  • Surveillance- including phone tapping + interception of private mail + house searches.
  • Trial by jury

Pregunta 7

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Brezhnev’s ‘initial response’ to calls for reform in January 1968 (after peaceful student protests)
Respuesta
  • Replaced Novotny with Dubcek
  • Sent in tanks
  • Organised Warsaw pact manoeuvres on Czech borders

Pregunta 8

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Calls of reform were known as….
Respuesta
  • Socialism with an iron fist
  • Socialism with a human face
  • The death of socialism

Pregunta 9

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Associated with Dubceks’s reforms
Respuesta
  • Freedom of speech (lifting of censorship)
  • Leaving the Warsaw Pact
  • Pursuing an independent foreign policy
  • Democratic socialism
  • Legalising political parties
  • Reducing powers of the StB
  • Limited free market capitalism

Pregunta 10

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The communist leadership of Poland and East Germany supported Dubcek’s reforms
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 11

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The ‘invasion’…
Respuesta
  • August 20 1968
  • 2000 troops
  • 2000 tanks
  • 500,000 Warsaw Pact troops (from 5 countries)
  • July 20 1968
  • Was the largest deployment of troops since WWII

Pregunta 12

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How did the Czech’s respond to the invasion?
Respuesta
  • Organised anti-soviet militias
  • With Passive Resistance
  • Czech army ordered to resist the invasion

Pregunta 13

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Dubcek’s fate
Respuesta
  • Arrested and flown to Moscow
  • Arrested and shot
  • Ordered to reverse the reforms
  • Replaced by Gustav Husak (but not until April 1969)
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