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6. What was it like to living Czechoslovakia under Soviet rule?

  • There was lots of incentives given by the government to work hard
  • Everything was great
  • Lack of basic human rights, no trade unions, no voting rights + a huge fear of the secret police
  • Most people had a good job that payed well

7. When did Dubcek come into power?

  • 1963
  • 1966
  • 1967
  • 1968

8. What were the consequences of this?

  • Czechoslovakia returned to strict communist rule, Dubcek and other leaders are arrested, another loyal communist is put into power
  • Dubcek's army defeat the Red Army and Czechoslovakia become a free country
  • Brezhnev gets even more angry and claims Czechoslovakia as an extension of the Soviet Empire

9. What were some of the reforms within Prague Spring?

  • Better environmental protection laws to minimise the effects of global warming
  • Provision of basic human rights, free elections, freedom to travel abroad and end of press censorship
  • Increased power of the Soviet Union in major cities, longer working hours, lower minimum wage, higher taxes

10. When was Prague Spring?

  • Spring 1968
  • Spring 1969
  • Spring 1965
  • Spring 1964

11. What was Prague Spring?

  • A set of social reforms set in Czechoslovakia to provide "socialism with a human face"
  • A spring with record high temperatures in Czechoslovakia
  • A set of anti-communist reforms to help de-Stalinise Czechoslovakia