1media/image-5.jpg2018-12-06T21:00:50-08:00Jan Hamaradbb9b4e12a0a9cd10529d07c16b0755ad03ddfed3244510This chapter of the book talks about individual historical periods of the Czechoslovak state as well as about the general history leading to the Velvet Revolution and the dissolution of this nation.image_header2018-12-07T14:28:12-08:00Jan Hamaradbb9b4e12a0a9cd10529d07c16b0755ad03ddfedThe lifecycle of the Czechoslovak state has not been easy. The new republic went through multiple transformations, first forming The First Republic in between 1918-1938, then The Second Republic in 1938-1939, having to endure the power of Nazi forces during the Second World War and later being occupied by the Communists after the times of The Third Republic during 1945-1948. All these periods along with the last form of this nation, called The Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, will be discussed in this chapter, discussing crucial events leading to the dissolution of this republic.
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1media/image-4.jpg2018-12-07T12:41:23-08:00Jan Hamaradbb9b4e12a0a9cd10529d07c16b0755ad03ddfedThe First Republic (1918–1938)12The independence of Czechoslovakia was officially proclaimed in Prague on 28 October 1918 . The Slovaks officially joined the state two days later in Martin. A temporary constitution was adopted, and Tomáš Masaryk was declared president on 14 November.image_header2018-12-07T14:02:15-08:00Jan Hamaradbb9b4e12a0a9cd10529d07c16b0755ad03ddfed
1media/image-10.jpg2018-12-07T12:45:29-08:00Jan Hamaradbb9b4e12a0a9cd10529d07c16b0755ad03ddfedThe Second Republic (1938–1939)5The Second Czechoslovak Republic existed exactly for 169 days. It was composed of Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia and the autonomous regions of Slovakia and Subcarpathian Ruthenia, the latter renamed as Carpathian Ukraine.image_header2018-12-07T14:03:07-08:00Jan Hamaradbb9b4e12a0a9cd10529d07c16b0755ad03ddfed
1media/image-11.jpg2018-12-07T12:46:50-08:00Jan Hamaradbb9b4e12a0a9cd10529d07c16b0755ad03ddfedWorld War II (1939-1945)6Czechoslovak military units fought alongside Allied forces. In December 1943, Beneš's government concluded a treaty with the Soviet Union. Beneš worked to bring Czechoslovak communist exiles in Britain into active cooperation with his government, offering far-reaching concessions, including nationalization of heavy industry and the creation of local people's committees at the war's end.image_header2018-12-07T14:05:07-08:00Jan Hamaradbb9b4e12a0a9cd10529d07c16b0755ad03ddfed
1media/image-12.jpg2018-12-07T12:48:04-08:00Jan Hamaradbb9b4e12a0a9cd10529d07c16b0755ad03ddfedThe Third Republic (1945–1948) and the Communist takeover (1948)10The Third Republic came into being in April 1945. Its government became a National Front coalition in which three socialist parties—the Communist Party (KSČ), the Czechoslovak Social Democrats, and the Czechoslovak National Socialists—predominated. Czechoslovakia soon came to fall within the Soviet sphere of influence.image_header2018-12-07T14:21:28-08:00Jan Hamaradbb9b4e12a0a9cd10529d07c16b0755ad03ddfed
1media/image-14.jpg2018-12-07T12:49:08-08:00Jan Hamaradbb9b4e12a0a9cd10529d07c16b0755ad03ddfedThe Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (1948–1989)4In February 1948, the Communists took power in the 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état, and Edvard Beneš inaugurated a new cabinet led by Klement Gottwald. Czechoslovakia was declared a "people's democracy" (until 1960) – a preliminary step toward socialism and, ultimately, communism.image_header2018-12-07T14:26:04-08:00Jan Hamaradbb9b4e12a0a9cd10529d07c16b0755ad03ddfed
1media/image-19.jpg2018-12-07T12:28:04-08:00Jan Hamaradbb9b4e12a0a9cd10529d07c16b0755ad03ddfedDemocratic Czechoslovakia (1989-1992)2There were many events and reasons that predestined the separation of Czech and Slovak nations to happen, some of which are discussed in this chapter, in order to offer a wider background for the setting where the dissolution happened.plain2018-12-07T14:27:32-08:00Jan Hamaradbb9b4e12a0a9cd10529d07c16b0755ad03ddfed