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| 1968 | Brezhnev, Leonoid Ilych |  |
| June Brezhnev and the leadership of the Warsaw Pact countries are concerned about Dubcek's reforms, which they fear weaken the position of the Communist Bloc during the Cold War
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| June Russia agrees with Czechoslovakia to withdraw their troops (still stationed in Czechoslovakia since the June maneuvers) and permit the September 9 Party Congress
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| 3rd Aug Bratislava At a Warsaw Pact meeting, Brezhnev announces intervention will go ahead August 20, and asks for "fraternal support", which leaders of Bulgaria, East Germany, Hungary & Poland offer
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| 3rd Aug Bratislava In the Bratislava Declaration Russia expresses its intention to intervene in a Warsaw Pact country if a "bourgeois" system-a pluralist system of several political parties is ever established
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| 3rd Aug Bratislava Representatives from Russia, East Germany, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Czechoslovakia meet in Bratislava and sign the Bratislava Declaration
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| 3rd Aug Bratislava The Bratislava Declaration ffirms unshakable fidelity to Marxism-Leninism & proletarian internationalism & declares an implacable struggle against "bourgeois" ideology and all "antisocialist" forces
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| 16th Aug A Politburo passes a resolution to "provide help to the Communist Party and people of Czechoslovakia through military force"
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| 20th Aug Dubcek, who had been arrested on the night of August 20, ss taken to Moscow for negotiations, it was agreed that Dubcek would remain in office and that a program of moderate reform would continue
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| 20th Aug The Soviet Press prints an unsigned request, allegedly by Czechoslovak party and state leaders, for "immediate assistance, including assistance with armed forces"
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| 21st Aug Eastern Bloc armies from 5 Warsaw Pact countries invaded the CSSR, Russian tanks ranging in number from 5,000 to 7,000 fill the streets, followed by Warsaw Pact troops ranging from 200,000 to 600,000
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