Spring to Mind

The first question is related to today, 20 August. The subsequent ones relate to each other.

One

On 20 August 1968, the Soviet Union led the other member nations of the Warsaw Pact, with the exception of Albania and Romania, in an invasion of … to end Alexander Dubček’s liberalisation, known as the … Spring.

What country and city respectively are missing from the above statement?

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Two

When the Warsaw Pact was established in 1955, how many nations were members, and what were they?

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Three

The Soviet Union was also known as the USSR; what did this abbreviation stand for in English; and for how many years did it exist?

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Four

Name the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council?

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Five

The picture above shows the United Nations Building. What body of water is in the foreground of this picture?

Good luck! I’ll post the answers later.

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