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The Prague Spring
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iGCSE History Quiz on The Prague Spring, created by Drew Bott on 18/12/2023.
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Question 1
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Year of the Prague Spring
Answer
1953
1956
1968
Question 2
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Much ‘disliked’ communist leader of Czechoslovakia
Answer
Imre Nagy
Alexander Dubcek
Anton Novotny
Question 3
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Soviet leader at the time.
Answer
Stalin
Khrushchev
Brezhnev
Question 4
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Czech economic ‘complaints’ about communist rule.
Answer
Economic exploitation by USSR
Shortages of basic foodstuff
Failure of communist economic policies
Unable to sell surpluses
Question 5
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Czech political ‘discontent’ about communist ‘rule’
Answer
Oppression by secret police (StB)
Lack of reforms in the wake of ‘DeStalinisation’
Lack of ‘free speech’
Question 6
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Associated with the StB (Secret Police)
Answer
Forced confessions via - torture, blackmail + use of psychoactive drugs.
Surveillance- including phone tapping + interception of private mail + house searches.
Trial by jury
Question 7
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Brezhnev’s ‘initial response’ to calls for reform in January 1968 (after peaceful student protests)
Answer
Replaced Novotny with Dubcek
Sent in tanks
Organised Warsaw pact manoeuvres on Czech borders
Question 8
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Calls of reform were known as….
Answer
Socialism with an iron fist
Socialism with a human face
The death of socialism
Question 9
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Associated with Dubceks’s reforms
Answer
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
Question 10
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The communist leadership of Poland and East Germany supported Dubcek’s reforms
Answer
True
False
Question 11
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The ‘invasion’…
Answer
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
Question 12
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How did the Czech’s respond to the invasion?
Answer
Organised anti-soviet militias
With Passive Resistance
Czech army ordered to resist the invasion
Question 13
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Dubcek’s fate
Answer
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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