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A History of the Czechoslovak Republic 1918-48 (1973) Skilling, H. ed. Czechoslovakia, 1918-88. Seventy Years from Independence (1991) Lukes, Igor. 'Czechoslovakia between Stalin and Hitler', Oxford University Press 1996, ISBN 0-19-510267-3; Olivová, V. The Doomed Democracy: Czechoslovakia in a Disrupted Europe 1914-38 (1972) Orzoff, Andrea.
The importance of the Young Czech Party waned as Czech politics changed orientation. Political parties advocating democracy and socialism emerged. In 1900 Tomáš Masaryk, a university professor and former Young Czech deputy who was to become president of the Czechoslovak Republic, founded the Czech Progressive Party. Basing its struggle for ...
The First Czechoslovak Republic emerged from the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in October 1918. The new state consisted mostly of territories inhabited by Czechs and Slovaks, but also included areas containing majority populations of other nationalities, particularly Germans (22.95 %), who accounted for more citizens than the state's second state nation of the Slovaks, [1] Hungarians ...
In Slovakia, young Slovak intellectuals began to challenge the old Slovak National Party. But although the Czech and Slovak national movements began drawing closer together, their ultimate goals remained unclear. At least until World War I, the Czech and Slovak national movements struggled for autonomy within Austria and Hungary, respectively.
Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia: Czechoslovakia: Warsaw Pact: 137 killed Defeat 1970s-1980s Angolan Civil War: MPLA supported by: Czechoslovakia and others UNITA: 1 killed Victory 1990-1991 Gulf War: Czechoslovakia United States and other Iraq: 1 killed Victory 1999 Kosovo War: NATO including the Czech Republic: Federal Republic of ...
Belligerents (excluding Austria, mentioned as a margraviate of the Duchy of Bavaria) Outcome Allies Enemies 976 978 War of the Three Henries (976–978) Holy Roman Empire: Duchy of Bavaria: Bavarian defeat Birth of Austria, Leopold I becomes Margrave of Austria; 1015 1015 Bolesław I's first invasion of the Austria Holy Roman Empire: Duchy of ...
Austria-Hungary, [c] also referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Dual Monarchy or the Habsburg Monarchy, was a multi-national constitutional monarchy in Central Europe [d] between 1867 and 1918.
When Austria entered dictatorial rule in 1934, Austrian Social Democrats like Otto Bauer and Julius Deutsch found refuge in the Czechoslovak Republic and founded the ALÖS (Auslandsbüro der österreichischen Sozialdemokraten), the foreign bureau of Austrian Social Democrats, in Brno.