Velvet Revolution: Timeline

1989   Cold War Cold War

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: TheVelvet Revolution begins - In Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia

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 a peaceful student demonstration in Prague Prague

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 is severely beaten back by riot poli This sparks a revolution aimed at overthrowing the Communist government (it succeeds on December 29).

1989   Cold War Cold War

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: Velvet Revolution - The number of peaceful protesters assembled in Prague Prague

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, Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia

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 swells from 200,000 the day before to an estimated half-million.

1989   Cold War Cold War

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: Velvet Revolution - With other Communist regimes falling all around it and with growing street protests, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announces they will give up their monopoly Monopoly

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 on political power (elections held in December bring the first non-communist government to Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia was a country in Central Europe [i] that existed from 1918 until early 1993 . ... 

 in more than 40 years).