Czechoslovakia · event 10 of 12

21 August 1968

The Warsaw Pact invasion. Around half a million troops end the Prague Spring. The army is ordered not to resist; the population removes street signs, argues with tank crews and broadcasts from hiding. About 137 people are killed.

The Czechoslovakia era

  1. 28 October 1918
  2. 30 September 1938
  3. 15 March 1939
  4. 1941
  5. 27 May 1942
  6. 5 May 1945
  7. 25 February 1948
  8. 1952
  9. 1 May 1955
  10. 21 August 1968
  11. 16 January 1969
  12. 1 January 1977

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