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.
In the history of Czechoslovakia, normalization is a name commonly given to the period following the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968 and up to the glasnost era of liberalization
Soviet stamp issued in 1970, marking the 25th Anniversary of the Liberation of Czechoslovakia from Fascist Occupation.
The Bridge of the Slovak National Uprising in Bratislava, opened in 1972
Czechoslovaks in 1972