invasion of Czechoslovakia 1968

GPTKB entity

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
gptkbp:date	1968-08-20 1968-08-21
gptkbp:excludedParticipant	gptkb:Albania gptkb:Romania
gptkbp:followedBy	gptkb:Normalization_period_in_Czechoslovakia
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	invasion of Czechoslovakia 1968
gptkbp:location	gptkb:Czechoslovakia
gptkbp:mediaCoverage	widely covered by international press
gptkbp:notableEvent	gptkb:Jan_Palach_self-immolation international condemnation end of Prague Spring Albania withdrew from Warsaw Pact Yugoslavia and Romania condemned the invasion mass emigration from Czechoslovakia
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:relatedTo	gptkb:Cold_War gptkb:Warsaw_Pact gptkb:Brezhnev_Doctrine gptkb:Prague_Spring
gptkbp:result	restoration of hardline Communist rule in Czechoslovakia
gptkbp:significance	demonstrated limits of reform in Eastern Bloc led to Brezhnev Doctrine
gptkbp:UNResolution	condemned by United Nations Security Council (vetoed by USSR)
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Warsaw_Treaty_Organization
gptkbp:bfsLayer	6