The “Prague Spring” ends: the communist Warsaw Pact nations of the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, the Democratic Republic of (East) Germany, Hungary and Poland, invade their communist ally Czechoslovakia, to put a halt to the liberalization reforms of First Secretary Alexander Dubcek.
[restored 10/23/2022]
Subsequent Events:
References:
Stanley A. Karnow, Vietnam: A History, (1983; New York: Penguin, 1997), 652.
“Today in History,” Orange County (California) Register, 20 August 2009, News:3.
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