Primary Sources: Czechoslovakia Crisis, 1968: The State Department’s Crisis Files

Czechoslovakia Crisis, 1968: The State Department’s Crisis Files consists of documents collected and collated from a variety of State Department sources by the State Department’s Executive Secretariat, and represents an administrative history of the crisis. This collection includes almost a day-by-day record of the events, including the U.S. and the West’s response to the Soviet occupation.

The resources is organized in a series of subcollections:

• Czechoslovak Crisis Cable Chronology August 1968, Volume 1, Folder 2 “B”
• Czechoslovak Crisis Cable Chronology August 1968, Volume 1, Folder 3 “C”
• Czechoslovak Crisis Cable Chronology August 1968, Volume 1, Folder 4 “D”
• Czechoslovak Crisis Cable Chronology August 1968, Volume 1, Folder 5 “E”
• Czechoslovak Crisis Chronology August 1968, Folder 1 “A”
• Czechoslovak Crisis Miscellaneous Memos and MemCons Folder 6 “F”