Prague Spring and Surrounding Events

By JJJJJ

  • Dubcek replaces Novotny as Communist Party Leader

  • Dubcek forms a new government

    Liberalization of Czechoslovakia continues.

  • Censorship is abolished

  • Brezhnev and other Soviet leaders meet with Dubcek

    The Soviet leadership had grown increasingly concerned with the liberal nature of Dubcek's reforms and met with Dubcek to demand changes.

  • Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia

    This is the end of the Prague Spring movement and its liberal reforms.

  • Dubcek resigns from head of Communist party

  • Husak replaces Dubcek as Communist Party first secretary