The Czechoslovak Republic, commonly known as Czechoslovakia, was a short lived country in central Europe. It's territory is now part of the Greater Germanic Reich, Slovak Republic, Kingdom of Hungary, and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
History[]
Pre-war[]
Czechoslovakia, along with Hungary and Austria, was one of the states to rise out of he ashes of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the aftermath of World War I. Unlike those two nations, Czechoslovakia maintained a democratic government, and was seen as a bastion of liberty surrounded by many Despotic and Authoritarian Democratic states.
Ethnic tensions and Nazi interference[]
The country was made up of many different nationalities, with Czechs in the west, Slovaks and Carpatho-Ukranians in the east, and Sudeten Germans along the border with Germany. Following the bloodless annexation of Austria, Germany set its sights on the Sudeten border region. In the Munich conference, the United Kingdom and French Republic abandoned the Czechs and allowed the Germans to take the Sudetenland. Within the next year the country had been partitioned between Germany, Slovakia, and Hungary, with Germany setting up the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in the western half of the country.
Legacy[]
Czech partisans fought against the Germans during World War II, almost killing then administrator of the territory Reinhard Heydrich, though they failed and a massive wave of executions and atrocities swept the land. By 1962, the protectorate is heavily Germanized, and Czechoslovakia is only a distant memory.