Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia, or Czecho-Slovakia,^[1] was a country in Europe. It split off from Austria-Hungary in 1918 and split apart in 1993.

In mid-1938 Nazi Germany took over Czechoslovakia and split off Slovakia. Sudetenland was annexed by Germany, other parts of Czechia became its protectorate named Bohemia and Moravia. After World War II the USSR liberated these lands and kept Zakarpattia because of the Ukrainian (Rusyn) majority in that region.

By 1948 pro-Soviet communists got the power finally and declared the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. It was a member of Warsaw Treaty Organization and COMECON , one of the richest countries of the Eastern Bloc. In the Prague Spring of the late 1960s, Czechoslovak leader Alexander Dubcek pursued his own policy of a 'socialism with a human face'. In 1968 Warsaw Pact troops invaded Czechoslovakia to restore the old system.

In 1989 Czechoslovakia peacefully changed its political system in the Velvet Revolution. On 1 January 1993, Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The countries separated in peace.

• 1918-1920: Republic of Czechoslovakia (abbreviated RCS)/Czecho-Slovak State,^[2] or Czecho-Slovakia/Czechoslovakia
• 1920-1938: Czechoslovak Republic (CSR), or Czechoslovakia
• 1938-1939: Czecho-Slovak Republic, or Czecho-Slovakia
• 1945-1960: Czechoslovak Republic (CSR), or Czechoslovakia
• 1960-1990: Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (CSSR), or Czechoslovakia
• April 1990: Czechoslovak Federative Republic (Czech version) and Czecho-Slovak Federative Republic (Slovak version)
  • The country subsequently became the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic, CSFR, or Ceskoslovensko (Czech version) and Cesko-Slovensko (Slovak version).

1. | "THE COVENANT OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS".
2. | Votruba, Martin. "Czecho-Slovakia or Czechoslovakia". Slovak Studies Program. University of Pittsburgh. Archived from the original on 15 October 2013. Retrieved 29 March 2009.