Communist coup of 1948

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:historical_event
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs gptkb:Czechoslovak_coup_d'état_of_1948
gptkbp:cause Communist Party pressure
Political crisis in Czechoslovakia
gptkbp:country gptkb:Czechoslovakia
gptkbp:date February 1948
gptkbp:effect Suppression of opposition parties
Czechoslovakia becomes part of Eastern Bloc
Death of Jan Masaryk
Resignation of non-communist ministers
gptkbp:followedBy gptkb:Czechoslovak_Socialist_Republic
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Communist coup of 1948
gptkbp:keyFigure gptkb:Edvard_Beneš
gptkb:Jan_Masaryk
gptkb:Klement_Gottwald
gptkb:Václav_Nosek
gptkbp:location gptkb:Prague
gptkbp:opposedBy Non-communist parties
gptkbp:partOf gptkb:Cold_War
gptkbp:precededBy gptkb:Third_Czechoslovak_Republic
gptkbp:result Communist Party of Czechoslovakia seizes power
Establishment of a one-party state
Start of communist rule in Czechoslovakia
gptkbp:significance Marked the start of four decades of communist rule in Czechoslovakia
Contributed to the division of Europe during the Cold War
gptkbp:supportedBy gptkb:Soviet_Union
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Czech_Republic_(after_WWII)
gptkb:Československá_republika
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6