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Czechoslovakia had fielded a modern army of 35 divisions and was a major manufacturer of machine guns, tanks, and artillery, most of them assembled in the Škoda factory in Plzeň. Many Czech factories continued to produce Czech designs until converted to German designs. Czechoslovakia also had other major manufacturing companies.
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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 ...
Czechoslovakia, 1918–1938 (In March 1938, Austria was annexed by Germany.) With international tension already high in Central Europe after the German annexation of Austria in March 1938 and the continued unrest in the German-speaking border regions of Czechoslovakia, the Sudetenland, reports of substantial military concentrations in areas close to Czechoslovakia on 19 May 1938 gave rise to ...
Origins of Czechoslovakia: 1918: Washington Declaration: 1918: First Czechoslovak Republic: 1918–1938: Munich Agreement: 1938: Second Czechoslovak Republic: 1938–1939: German occupation: 1938–1945 Bohemia and Moravia: 1939–1945 Slovak Republic: 1939–1945: Czechoslovak government-in-exile: 1939–1945: Third Czechoslovak Republic: 1945 ...
Czechoslovakia: Paraguay: Defeat 1938 Sudeten German uprising: Czechoslovakia: German Insurgents 100 killed Partial defeat 1938 Capture of Zaolzie: Czechoslovakia: Second Polish Republic: 2 killed Defeat 1939 Axis invasion of Czechoslovakia: Czechoslovakia: Nazi Germany: 1 killed Defeat 1939 Hungarian Invasion of Carpatho-Ukraine ...
The Second Republic was dissolved when Germany invaded it on 15 March 1939, and annexed the Czech region into the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. On the same day as the German occupation, the President of Czechoslovakia, Emil Hácha was appointed by the German government as the State President of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia ...
The first free elections in Czechoslovakia since 1946 took place in June 1990 without incident and with more than 95% of the population voting. As anticipated, Civic Forum and Public Against Violence won landslide victories in their respective republics and gained a comfortable majority in the federal parliament.