Prague Spring, 1968

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Notes on the key facts about the Prague Spring, 1968. History IGCSE.
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Cause economic inefficiency: director promised 400 locomotives/year, they produced 70; poor living conditions; subtle needs such as trust, fulfilment and development of education were n ot met.
Dubcek's idea Socialism with a human was an idea by Dubcek, the Czech leader in 1967, which would end censorship, give the people freedom of speech, and reduce the secret police's activities.
Events of 1967 Dubcek introduced Socialism with a human face, meaning that he ended censorship. He told Brezhnev that he had no intentions of leaving the Warsaw Pact, and that he was to make some reforms in his way of government; Dubcek tried to make communism more democratic.
Prague Spring no censorship; lots of new ideas 'blooming'; Warsaw Pact's troops performed public training sessions on the Czech border.
Prague Summer 20th of August 1968, troops from the Warsaw pact invaded Czechoslovakia to remove Dubcek and his demands for change. Czechs did not resist as they did not want a repeat of what happened in Hungary.
Consequences Leader in Czech were in prisoned but not executed; return of censorship and secret police activity.
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