Czechoslovakia

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Czechoslovakia

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Czechoslovakia

a former republic in central Europe: formed after the defeat of Austria-Hungary (1918) as a nation of Czechs in Bohemia and Moravia and Slovaks in Slovakia; occupied by Germany from 1939 until its liberation by the Soviet Union in 1945; became a people's republic under the Communists in 1948; invaded by Warsaw Pact troops in 1968, ending Dubček's attempt to liberalize communism; in 1989 popular unrest led to the resignation of the politburo and the formation of a non-Communist government. It consisted of two federal republics, the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic, which became independent in 1993

Czech name ČeskoslovenskoSee Czech Republic See Slovak Republic

Czechoslovakia

1. a former republic in central Europe; divided into Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993

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