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Also Known As Československo • Česká a Slovenská Federativna Republika • Czech and Slovak Federal Republic • Česká a Slovenská Federativní Republika
Date 1918 - 1993

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Czechoslovakia
Edvard Beneš
Tomáš Masaryk
Alexander Dubček
Soviet invasion of Prague
Václav Havel
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Major Events

World War II: Germany invading Poland
World War II
Soviet invasion of Prague
Prague Spring
Munich Agreement: Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, and Neville Chamberlain
Munich Agreement
Helsinki Accords
NATO and the Warsaw Pact
Warsaw Pact
Leonid Brezhnev
Brezhnev Doctrine
Treaty of Trianon
Václav Havel
Velvet Revolution
Treaty of Saint-Germain

Related Places

Český Krumlov
Bohemia
historical region, Europe
Great Moravia
Moravia
historical region, Europe

Key People

Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud
Austrian psychoanalyst
Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke
Austrian-German poet
Edmund Husserl
Edmund Husserl
German philosopher
Kurt Gödel
Kurt Gödel
American mathematician
Tomáš Masaryk
Tomáš Masaryk
president of Czechoslovakia
Charles IV
Charles IV
Holy Roman emperor
Miloš Forman
Miloš Forman
Czech-born director
Rudolf Vrba
Rudolf Vrba
Slovak-Jewish biochemist
Shirley Temple
Shirley Temple
American actress and diplomat
Edvard Beneš
Edvard Beneš
president of Czechoslovakia
Madeleine Albright
Madeleine Albright
United States secretary of state
Max Wertheimer
Czech-born psychologist
Martina Hingis
Martina Hingis
Swiss tennis player
Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera
Czech writer
sculpture of Andrej Hlinka
Andrej Hlinka
Slovak priest and politician
Václav Havel
Václav Havel
president of Czech Republic
Rupert, detail of a painting from the studio of Sir Peter Lely, c. 1670; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Prince Rupert
English commander
Jerome of Prague
Jerome of Prague
Czech philosopher
Karel Čapek, 1938.
Karel Čapek
Czech writer
G.W. Pabst
German director