Czechoslovakia
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Czechoslovakia was a country in Central Europe. The country was bordered by Austria and Hungary to the south, Germany to the west and northwest, Poland to the northeast, and Ukraine to the southeast.
Czechoslovak troops in Vladivostok (1918)
Czechoslovak declaration of independence rally in Prague on Wenceslas Square, 28 October 1918
A monument to Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk and Milan Štefánik—both key figures in early Czechoslovakia
Plaque dedicated to formation of Czechoslovakia, in Bratislava
The military occupation of Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany began with the German annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938, continued with the creation of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and by th
From left to right: Chamberlain, Daladier, Hitler, Mussolini, and Ciano pictured before signing the Munich Agreement, which gave the Sudetenland to Germany
Edvard Beneš, the second President of Czechoslovakia and leader of the Czechoslovak government-in-exile
Ethnic Germans in Saaz, Sudetenland, greet German soldiers with the Nazi salute, 1938.
Hácha, Hitler and Göring meeting in Berlin, 14/15 March 1939