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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.
February 15. In the 1938 World Ice Hockey Championships, Poland loses to Switzerland 1–7, February 16. In Warsaw, Michal Offierski, a pilot from Katowice, breaks the world height gliding record, reaching 4 595 meters, February 17. In the 1938 World Ice Hockey Championships, Poland loses to Sweden 0–1, February 18.
On 13 June 1958, in Warsaw, the two countries signed a treaty confirming the border at the line of January 1, 1938 (that is, returning to the situation before the Nazi-imposed Munich Agreement transferred territory from Czechoslovakia to Poland), and since then there have been no conflicts regarding this matter.
A list of films produced in the historical country of Czechoslovakia. As yet only work has been completed on 1898–1935. For films of the Czech Republic from 1991 onwards please see List of Czech Republic films.
Edvard Beneš, leader of the Czechoslovak government in exile Władysław Sikorski, leader of the Polish government in exile. Czechoslovak politicians Hodža and Jan Masaryk both wanted a confederation, [6] Beneš was more lukewarm; his goal was to ensure that the disputed Trans-Olza territory that had passed to Poland in the aftermath of the Munich Agreement was regained by Czechoslovakia, [2 ...
Polish invasion of Czechoslovakia can refer to: The annexation of parts of modern Czech territory by Poland in 1938 The Polish participation in the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968
It led to a new division of the region of Cieszyn Silesia in July 1920, and left a substantial Polish minority in Czechoslovakia in the region later called Trans-Olza because the demarcation line ran through the Olza river. The events, including later Czechoslovak policies in the territory led to further disputes including the 1938, Polish ...
In the story, the lives of a German mill owner and his family in the Sudetenland are changed dramatically as Europe heats up in 1938. The movie is based on true events and is the first major motion picture to dramatize the post-World War II expulsion of 3 million ethnic Germans from Czechoslovakia.