12018-12-07T16:25:10-08:00Jan Hamaradbb9b4e12a0a9cd10529d07c16b0755ad03ddfed324453This gallery brings together all historical images, that are connected in some way to the dissolution or history of the Czechoslovakiagallery2018-12-07T18:04:31-08:00Jan Hamaradbb9b4e12a0a9cd10529d07c16b0755ad03ddfed
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1media/image-7.jpg2018-12-06T20:56:03-08:00Jan Hamaradbb9b4e12a0a9cd10529d07c16b0755ad03ddfedWorld War I (1914–1918)6At the outbreak of World War I, the Czechs and Slovaks showed little enthusiasm for fighting for their perceived respective enemies, the Germans and the Hungarians, against fellow Slavs, the Russians and the Serbs.image_header2018-12-07T14:01:12-08:00Jan 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-13.jpg2018-12-07T14:52:28-08:00Jan Hamaradbb9b4e12a0a9cd10529d07c16b0755ad03ddfedWarsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia7The Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, officially known as Operation Danube, was a joint invasion of Czechoslovakia by five Warsaw Pact countries – the Soviet Union, Poland, Bulgaria, East Germany and Hungary – on the night of 20–21 August 1968image_header2018-12-07T15:39:32-08:00Jan Hamaradbb9b4e12a0a9cd10529d07c16b0755ad03ddfed
1media/image-1.jpg2018-12-07T15:24:44-08:00Jan Hamaradbb9b4e12a0a9cd10529d07c16b0755ad03ddfedThe Velvet Revolution (1989)3The anti-Communist revolution started on 16 November 1989 in Bratislava, with a demonstration of Slovak university students for democracy, and continued with the well-known similar demonstration of Czech students in Prague on 17 November.image_header2018-12-07T15:28:41-08:00Jan Hamaradbb9b4e12a0a9cd10529d07c16b0755ad03ddfed
1media/image-15.jpg2018-12-07T14:57:02-08:00Jan Hamaradbb9b4e12a0a9cd10529d07c16b0755ad03ddfedThe Prague Spring (1968)6The Prague Spring reforms were a strong attempt by Dubček to grant additional rights to the citizens of Czechoslovakia in an act of partial decentralization of the economy and democratization. The freedoms granted included a loosening of restrictions on the media, speech and travel.image_header2018-12-07T15:36:05-08:00Jan Hamaradbb9b4e12a0a9cd10529d07c16b0755ad03ddfed
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12018-12-07T13:39:02-08:00Jan Hamaradbb9b4e12a0a9cd10529d07c16b0755ad03ddfedA historic photo from post-second World War Czechoslovakia2Here a young Czech boy in Czechoslovakia is singing at an event to honor the dead of World War IImedia/image-11.jpgplain2018-12-07T18:07:18-08:00Jan Hamaradbb9b4e12a0a9cd10529d07c16b0755ad03ddfed