International reaction to Soviet measures in Czechoslovakia

Impact on the West: 

• The United States and West Germany condemned the invasion and the Brezhnev Doctrine that followed it. 
• However, the USA and West Germany offered no military support or assistance. the US was already bogged down in the Vietnam War and also did not want to provoke an international crisis. 
• Communist leaders in France and Italy were appalled by the invasion and therefore began to end their links with the Soviet Union. 

Impact on the East: 

• The invasion and the Brezhnev Doctrine limited reforms in other Eastern bloc countries who feared a Soviet invasion.
• Countries such…