Category: Czechoslovakia

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Name:	Czechoslovakia
Timeframe:	(1918 - 31 December 1992)
Wikipedia/WikiData:	English wikipedia Q33946
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Czech: Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia (Czech and Slovak: Československo) was a sovereign state in Central Europe from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until it's peaceful dissolution into the Czech Republic and Slovakia on 1 January 1993.

Also since October 1918, the Czech lands of Austria (Bohemia, Moravia, and Austrian Silesia) joined with the Slovak and Ruthenian (Ukrainian) counties of Hungary to create the sovereign Republic of Czechoslovakia. The Carpathian Ruthenia region is now mostly in western Ukraine, easternmost Slovakia, the Zaolzie region of Poland and a few villages in Romania and Hungary since 1945. Now today, also divided between Czech Republic and Slovakia.

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1918–1938: A democratic republic.
1938–1939: After annexation of Sudetenland by Germany in 1938, the region gradually turned into a state with loosened connections among the Czech, Slovak, and Ruthenian parts. A large strip of southern Slovakia and Carpatho-Ukraine was annexed by Hungary, and the Zaolzie region was annexed by Poland.
1939–1945: The region split into the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and the Slovak Republic. A government-in-exile continued to exist in London, supported by the United Kingdom, United States and its Allies; after the German invasion of Russia, it was also recognised by the USSR. Czechoslovakia adhered to the Declaration by United Nations and was a founding member of the United Nations.
1946–1948: The country was governed by a coalition government with communist ministers, including the prime minister and the minister of interior. Carpathian Ruthenia was ceded to the USSR.
1948–1989: The country became a communist state with a centrally planned economy. In 1960, the country officially became a socialist republic.
1969–1990: The federal republic consisted of the Czech Socialist Republic and the Slovak Socialist Republic.
1990–1992: The federal democratic republic consisted of the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic.

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