Submitted by jordan9998 on October 7, 2007
The Prague Spring is referred to when the Warsaw Pact allies invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968. Below are the details surrounding the incident.
In 1948, communism was the only political party in Czechoslovakia. The communist take-over was a very popular movement. The first reason why it was a popular movement is because Joseph Stalin signed an agreement with Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt that the Red Army, which would then lead to pro-communism, would liberate Czechoslovakia. The second reason why it was a popular movement is because the people of Czechoslovakia remembered what it felt like to be betrayed by the West at the Munich Agreement, where most of...
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