History of Czechoslovakia
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With the collapse of Austria-Hungary at the end of World War I, the independent country of Czechoslovakia was formed as a result of the critical initiative of the first Czechoslovak president Thomas M
Czechoslovak Legions in Vladivostok (1918)
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, the first president of Czechoslovakia.
From left to right: Chamberlain, Daladier, Hitler, Mussolini, and Ciano pictured before signing the Munich Agreement in September 1938, which gave the Sudetenland to Germany.
Sudeten Germans in Saaz (Žatec) greet the Wehrmacht with Nazi salutes.
First Czechoslovak Republic
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The First Czechoslovak Republic, often colloquially referred to as the First Republic, was the first Czechoslovak state that existed from 1918 to 1938, a union of ethnic Czechs and Slovaks. The countr
History of Czechoslovakia
…With the collapse of Austria-Hungary at the end of World War I, the independent country of Czechoslovakia (Czech, Slovak: Československo) was formed as a result of the critical initiative of the first Czechoslovak president Thomas Masaryk and the intervention…
"Czecho-Slovakia by Peace Terms" in 1920 indicates contributions of surrounding countries to the territory of the new state.
Czechoslovakia, 1920–1938