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| Sept. 6 |
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| Soviet deputy foreign minister Kuznetsov arrived in Prague, whereupon political clubs were banned, a preventive censorship system was introduced (Sept. 13), and Czech foreign minister Jiri Hajek, who had presented the Czech case at the UN, was forced to resign (Sept. 19). | 1 |
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| Sept. 11 |
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| Soviet troops left Prague. | 2 |
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| Oct. 3–4 |
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| The Czech leaders were summoned to Moscow and obliged to promise to abandon reforms as well as to accept Soviet military occupation “temporarily.” | 3 |
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| Oct. 27 |
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| A new federal constitution was introduced giving Slovakia complete autonomy as an equal partner with Bohemia-Moravia. Each partner was to have its own institutions, and only foreign affairs, defense, and foreign trade were to be dealt with in common. In Bratislava (Pressburg or Pozsony) a Slovak Socialist Republic was proclaimed. | 4 |
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