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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 ...
Gulf War: Czechoslovakia United States and other Iraq: 1 killed Victory 1999 Kosovo War: NATO including the Czech Republic: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia: None Victory 2002-2021 War in Afghanistan: Czech Republic United States United Kingdom and others Insurgents 14 killed Defeat 2003-2009 Iraq War [6] Czech Republic United States United ...
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.
"Prague to Its Victorious Sons", a monument to the Czechoslovak Legions at Palacký Square. The Czechoslovak Legion (Czech: Äeskoslovenské legie; Slovak: Äeskoslovenské légie) were volunteer armed forces consisting predominantly of Czechs and Slovaks [1] fighting on the side of the Entente powers during World War I and the White Army during the Russian Civil War until November 1919.
Czechoslovakia was founded in October 1918, as one of the successor states of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the end of World War I and as part of the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye. It consisted of the present day territories of Bohemia , Moravia , parts of Silesia making up present day Czech Republic , Slovakia , and a region of present-day ...
By the autumn of 1918, the legion no longer played an active part in the Russian civil war. After the coup against the Provisional All-Russian Government , and the installment of Alexander Kolchak 's military dictatorship, Czechoslovaks were withdrawn from the front, and assigned the task of guarding the Trans-Siberian Railway.
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The historical setting of the Pittsburgh Agreement was the impending dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the months before the end of World War I.By September 1918, it was evident that the forces of the Habsburg monarchy, the rulers of Austria-Hungary, would be defeated by the Allies: Britain, France, and Russia. [4]