Prague Spring (jan 5, 1968 – aug 21, 1968)

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Prague Spring was a period of time of reformation in Czechoslovakia that of socialism (period of liberalization against socialism). New leader/first secretary of the Czechoslovak Communist Party, Alexander Dubcek, was granting "socialism with a human face." Things granted throughout this brief time period was autonomy for Slovakia, democratization of the government, and loosening restrictions upon the media, speech, as well as travel. Overall, these changes were meant to give the citizens of Czechoslovakia more rights; however, the Soviet Union did not enjoy these new rights given to the people, and as a result, the Soviets launched an invasion into Czechoslovakia with hundreds of thousands of Warsaw Pact troops.
The Prague Spring time period was significant to the war as it was one of the main fueling agents to cause the implementation of the Brezhnev Doctrine-- invasion as a result of threat to socialism. Prague Spring shows how little freedom the people are to receive under the Soviet's rule, and that states could not pose any change or threat to socialism or would go through matters of invasion in order to eliminate those changes.

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