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Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia (1968)
URI:
https://gptkb.org/entity/Warsaw_Pact_invasion_of_Czechoslovakia_(1968)
GPTKB entity
Statements (34)
Predicate
Object
gptkbp:instanceOf
gptkb:military
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs
gptkb:Operation_Danube
gptkbp:casualties
over 100 civilians killed
hundreds wounded
gptkbp:commanded
gptkb:Vasily_Margelov
gptkb:Ivan_Yakubovsky
gptkbp:endDate
1968-08-21
gptkbp:excludedParticipant
gptkb:Albania
gptkb:Romania
gptkbp:followedBy
gptkb:Normalization_(Czechoslovakia)
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia (1968)
gptkbp:location
gptkb:Czechoslovakia
gptkbp:notableEvent
self-immolation of Jan Palach
mass protests in Czechoslovakia
arrest of Alexander Dubček
gptkbp:numberOfTroops
approximately 250,000
gptkbp:numberOfTubes
over 2,000
gptkbp:opposedBy
gptkb:Czechoslovakia
gptkbp:partOf
gptkb:Cold_War
gptkbp:perpetrator
gptkb:Bulgaria
gptkb:East_Germany
gptkb:Hungary
gptkb:Poland
gptkb:Soviet_Union
gptkbp:precededBy
gptkb:Prague_Spring
gptkbp:purpose
to halt the Prague Spring reforms
gptkbp:result
gptkb:Suppression_of_Prague_Spring
restoration of hardline Communist rule
gptkbp:significance
demonstrated Soviet control over Eastern Bloc
led to international condemnation
gptkbp:startDate
1968-08-20
gptkbp:bfsParent
gptkb:Bulgarian_Army_(after_1944)
gptkb:Bulgarian_People's_Army
gptkbp:bfsLayer
7