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'The Czechoslovakian Communist Party decided reforms were needed and appointed
Dubcek Party Secretary. Dubcek's aims were to improve the standard of living and give the
people more freedom and to do this brought in a series of reforms including less state
control, free elections and the end of press censorship.'
'Soviet leaders feared that there would be further demands for even more freedom in
Czechoslovakia. If granted people in other Eastern European states would make demands.
This might destroy the rule of the Communist parties in these countries and in the end Soviet
control.'
The USSR feared that Czechoslovakia would ally with Yugoslavia, who had refused to join
the Warsaw Pact and Romania and would no longer attend meetings of the Pact.'
'Czechoslovakia was too important to the security of the Soviet Union to allow any change as
it was the one country which had borders with both West Germany and the USSR.'
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When did Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia happen?
Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia happened on 1968-08-20.
What does 'one-sided battle' mean?
The most common usage of "one-sided battle" refers to a conflict in which there is one side which sustains most or all of the losses. The crushing defeat of the reformists by Soviet military forces in 1968 Czechoslovakia is an example where the Czech's provided no military resistance.
When did Hitler take over Czechoslovakia?
Mussolini, Chamberlain, Daladier and Hilter met at the last minute on 29 September 1938 to decide Czechoslovakia's fate. They decided that Czechoslavkia had to hand over the German speaking Sudetenland which contained the country's western and northern defenses against Germany. The Czechs gave in easily because they had no help and in October 1938, German troops marched into the Sudetenland. They occupied the rest of the country in March 1939.
What did Pat Sajak do during the Vietnam War?
Yes. He joined the US Army in 1968 and was sent to Vietnam where he dj'ed on Armed Forces Radio.
When the Tet offensive occur?
1. Cause-underestimation of the enemy. 2. Consequences-War was unwinnable. Reason war was unwinnable: Without widening the war into the neighboring countries of Laos and Cambodia, which was the communist infiltration routes (Ho Chi Minh Trail specifically); and risking a confrontation with the communist superpowers (Soviet Union & Red China-which DID occur in the Korean War) it was time to either fish or cut bait; we cut bait.
