The Prague Spring Trivia Questions

True. The Prague Spring began in January 1968 and ended with the Warsaw Pact invasion on August 20–21, 1968, about seven months.

True. This phrase, coined by Alexander Dubček, described the Czechoslovak attempt to liberalize the communist system.

False. The Prague Spring was a peaceful reform movement initiated by the Czechoslovak Communist Party itself, not a violent rebellion.

False. The invasion was a joint Warsaw Pact operation involving the USSR, Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary, and East Germany.

True. The reforms included lifting censorship to allow freedom of speech and press, a key aspect of 'socialism with a human face'.

False. Czechoslovakia remained in the Warsaw Pact after the 1968 invasion, and the reforms were reversed during normalization.

False. Communism continued in Czechoslovakia until the Velvet Revolution of 1989; the Prague Spring did not end it.

True. Romania refused to participate in the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, while the USSR, Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary, and East Germany took part.