Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia (1968)

GPTKB entity

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:historical_event gptkb:military
gptkbp:casualties	over 100 civilians killed hundreds wounded
gptkbp:commanded	gptkb:Vasily_Margelov gptkb:Wojciech_Jaruzelski gptkb:Viktor_Dubynin gptkb:Ivan_Pavlovsky
gptkbp:date	1968
gptkbp:endDate	1968-08-21
gptkbp:followedBy	gptkb:Normalization_period_in_Czechoslovakia
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia (1968)
gptkbp:location	gptkb:Czechoslovakia
gptkbp:mediaCoverage	international condemnation protests in Western countries
gptkbp:notParticipatedIn	gptkb:Albania gptkb:Romania
gptkbp:numberOfTroops	approximately 250,000
gptkbp:numberOfTubes	over 2,000
gptkbp:opposedBy	gptkb:Czechoslovak_citizens
gptkbp:partOf	gptkb:Prague_Spring
gptkbp:perpetrator	gptkb:Bulgaria gptkb:East_Germany gptkb:Hungary gptkb:Poland gptkb:Soviet_Union gptkb:Warsaw_Pact
gptkbp:precededBy	gptkb:Prague_Spring_reforms
gptkbp:purpose	to halt political liberalization to maintain Communist control
gptkbp:relatedTo	gptkb:Leonid_Brezhnev gptkb:Prague_Spring gptkb:Warsaw_Pact_invasion_of_Czechoslovakia gptkb:Alexander_Dubček
gptkbp:result	gptkb:Suppression_of_Prague_Spring restoration of hardline Communist rule
gptkbp:significance	demonstrated limits of Soviet tolerance for reform in Eastern Bloc led to Brezhnev Doctrine
gptkbp:startDate	1968-08-20
gptkbp:target	gptkb:Czechoslovakia
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Yugoslav–Soviet_relations gptkb:Yugoslavia–Soviet_Union_relations
gptkbp:bfsLayer	6