1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/1968_invasion_of_Czechoslovakia
GPTKB entity
Statements (33)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:historical_event
gptkb:military
gptkbp:casualties over 100 civilians killed
gptkbp:codename gptkb:Operation_Danube
gptkbp:commanded gptkb:Vasily_Margelov
gptkb:Ivan_Yakubovsky
gptkbp:commemoratedBy August 21
gptkbp:endDate 1968-08-21
gptkbp:followedBy gptkb:Normalization_period_in_Czechoslovakia
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia
gptkbp:location gptkb:Czechoslovakia
gptkbp:mediaType photographs by Josef Koudelka
gptkbp:notParticipatedIn gptkb:Albania
gptkb:Romania
gptkbp:numberOfTroops approximately 250,000 Warsaw Pact troops
gptkbp:opposedBy gptkb:Czechoslovakia
gptkb:Alexander_Dubček
gptkbp:partOf gptkb:Prague_Spring
gptkbp:perpetrator gptkb:Bulgaria
gptkb:East_Germany
gptkb:Hungary
gptkb:Poland
gptkb:Soviet_Union
gptkbp:precededBy gptkb:Prague_Spring_reforms
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Cold_War
gptkb:Warsaw_Pact
gptkb:Brezhnev_Doctrine
gptkbp:result gptkb:Suppression_of_Prague_Spring
restoration of hardline Communist rule
gptkbp:startDate 1968-08-20
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Invasion_68:_Prague
gptkb:Soviet-led_Warsaw_Pact_troops
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7