The Prague Spring

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iGCSE History Quiz sobre The Prague Spring, criado por Drew Bott em 18-12-2023.
Drew Bott
Quiz por Drew Bott, atualizado 11 meses atrás
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Criado por Drew Bott 11 meses atrás
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Questão 1

Questão
Year of the Prague Spring
Responda
  • 1953
  • 1956
  • 1968

Questão 2

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

Questão 3

Questão
Soviet leader at the time.
Responda
  • Stalin
  • Khrushchev
  • Brezhnev

Questão 4

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

Questão 5

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

Questão 6

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

Questão 7

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

Questão 8

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

Questão 9

Questão
Associated with Dubceks’s reforms
Responda
  • 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

Questão 10

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

Questão 11

Questão
The ‘invasion’…
Responda
  • 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

Questão 12

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

Questão 13

Questão
Dubcek’s fate
Responda
  • 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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