Warsaw Pact invasion of 1968

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Warsaw_Pact_invasion_of_1968

GPTKB entity

Statements (45)

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:military
gptkbp:aftermath	gptkb:Normalization_period_in_Czechoslovakia increased emigration from Czechoslovakia long-term Soviet military presence in Czechoslovakia
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs	gptkb:Prague_Spring_invasion
gptkbp:casualties	hundreds wounded 137 Czechoslovak civilians killed
gptkbp:commanded	gptkb:Vasily_Margelov gptkb:Ivan_Yakubovsky Alexander Dubček (Czechoslovak leader at the time)
gptkbp:context	gptkb:Cold_War gptkb:Prague_Spring
gptkbp:date	20 August 1968 21 August 1968
gptkbp:excludedParticipant	gptkb:Albania gptkb:Romania
gptkbp:followedBy	gptkb:Normalization_in_Czechoslovakia
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Warsaw Pact invasion of 1968
gptkbp:location	gptkb:Czechoslovakia
gptkbp:notableEvent	gptkb:Jan_Palach_self-immolation international condemnation mass protests in Czechoslovakia
gptkbp:opposedBy	gptkb:Czechoslovak_citizens gptkb:Czechoslovakia gptkb:Czechoslovak_military
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 in Czechoslovakia
gptkbp:relatedTo	gptkb:Czechoslovakia gptkb:Leonid_Brezhnev gptkb:Soviet_Union gptkb:Warsaw_Pact gptkb:Prague_Spring gptkb:Alexander_Dubček
gptkbp:result	gptkb:Suppression_of_Prague_Spring restoration of hardline Communist rule in Czechoslovakia
gptkbp:significance	demonstrated limits of Soviet tolerance for reform in Eastern Bloc influenced dissident movements in Eastern Europe led to Albania's withdrawal from Warsaw Pact
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Československá_republika
gptkbp:bfsLayer	6