Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Soviet-led_invasion_of_Czechoslovakia
GPTKB entity
Statements (33)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:military
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs gptkb:Warsaw_Pact_invasion_of_Czechoslovakia
gptkbp:casualties over 100 civilians killed
hundreds wounded
gptkbp:commanded gptkb:Vasily_Margelov
gptkb:Ivan_Yakubovsky
gptkb:Wojciech_Jaruzelski
gptkbp:date 1968-08-20
1968-08-21
gptkbp:followedBy gptkb:Normalization_period_in_Czechoslovakia
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia
gptkbp:location gptkb:Czechoslovakia
gptkbp:notParticipatedIn gptkb:Albania
gptkb:Romania
gptkbp:numberOfTroops approximately 250,000
gptkbp:numberOfTubes over 2,000
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:purpose to halt political liberalization
to maintain Communist control
gptkbp:result gptkb:Suppression_of_Prague_Spring
restoration of hardline Communist rule
gptkbp:significance major Cold War event
demonstrated limits of Soviet tolerance for reform in Eastern Bloc
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Jan_Palach
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5