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Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia , Czech Československo , former federal republic, 49,370 sq mi (127,869 sq km), in central Europe. On Jan. 1, 1993, the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic (see Slovakia ) became independent states and Czechoslovakia ceased to exist. (For history prior to 1918 as well as g... Read more
Prague Spring
Prague Spring see Prague and Czechoslovakia . ... Read more
Klement Gottwald
Klement Gottwald , 1896-1953, Czechoslovak Communist leader, b. Moravia. After World War I he helped found the Czechoslovak Communist party and served on the party's central committee from 1925. From 1928 to 1943 he was on the executive committee of the Comintern , serving as Comintern secretary fr... Read more
Locarno Pact
Locarno Pact 1925, concluded at a conference held at Locarno, Switzerland, by representatives of Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. The request of Gustav Stresemann for a mutual guarantee of the Rhineland met with the approval of Aristide Briand ; under... Read more
Munich Pact
Munich Pact 1938. In the summer of 1938, Chancellor Hitler of Germany began openly to support the demands of Germans living in the Sudetenland (see Sudetes ) of Czechoslovakia for an improved status. In September, Hitler demanded self-determination for the Sudetenland. Disorders broke out in Cze... Read more
Roman Jakobson
Roman Jakobson , 1896-1982, Russian-American linguist and literary critic, b. Moscow. He coined the term structural linguistics and stressed that the aim of historical linguistics is the study not of isolated changes within a language but of systematic change. In Czechoslovakia in the late 1920s and... Read more
Little Entente
Little Entente , loose alliance formed in 1920-21 by Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Yugoslavia. Its specific purposes were the containment of Hungarian revisionism (of the terms of the World War I peace treaty) and the prevention of a restoration of the Hapsburgs. The three nations were drawn together... Read more
Teschen
Teschen , Czech Tĕšín, Pol. Cieszyn, former principality (c.850 sq mi/2,200 sq km), now divided between the Czech Republic and Poland. Teschen was its chief town. A part of Silesia, the principality was under Bohemia from 1292 to 1625, when it came under Hapsburg rule. It rema... Read more
Warsaw Treaty Organization
Warsaw Treaty Organization or Warsaw Pact, alliance set up under a mutual defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland, in 1955 by Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union. The organization was the Soviet bloc's equivalent of the North Atlantic ... Read more
Ludwig Beck
Ludwig Beck , 1880-1944, German general, leader of resistance to Hitler. A highly cultivated career soldier, he served on the general staff during World War I and by 1933 had become in effect head of the army general staff. He opposed Hitler's plans for aggression and his attempts to destroy the ind... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Czechoslovakia"

Czechoslovakia, Relations with
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History CZECHOSLOVAKIA, RELATIONS WITH Both the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia were born from the collapse of European empires...Russian Empire, the Paris Peace Conference crafted Czechoslovakia from Austro-Hungarian lands. From the outset...
Czechoslovakia
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Czechoslovakia , Czech Československo...Slovakia ) became independent states and Czechoslovakia ceased to exist. (For history prior...Slovakia .) History The Emergence of Czechoslovakia The creation of Czechoslovakia was...
Czechoslovakia, Invasion of
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History CZECHOSLOVAKIA, INVASION OF Late in the evening of August 20, 1968, Czechoslovakia was invaded by five of its Warsaw-Pact...The possibility of military intervention in Czechoslovakia had been entertained in the Brezhnev Politburo...
Rom of Czechoslovakia
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures Rom of Czechoslovakia ETHNONYMS: Cik á n, Gypsies...of musicians in Asia Minor. In Czechoslovakia, "Cik á n" was a derogatory...1987 there were 383,000 Rom in Czechoslovakia. This is probably an underestimation...
Edward Beneš
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...honor its commitment to defend Czechoslovakia against German aggression led to the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia in 1938, and Europe's postwar...into the provisional government of Czechoslovakia on Oct. 14, 1918, with Bene...
Vaclav Havel
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...born 1936) became the president of Czechoslovakia in December 1989, a unique position...Vaclav Havel was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, on October 5, 1936, to a wealthy...and artists, and his uncle owned Czechoslovakia's major motion picture studio...
Sudetenland
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II ...originally the mountainous rim of Czechoslovakia's north-eastern Bohemia and northern...German-inhabited regions of the Czechoslovakia contiguous to Austria and Germany...settlement put the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia. The ethnic composition of Bohemia...
Munich agreement
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II ...Austria in March 1938, the conquest of Czechoslovakia came next on Hitler's programme...down on 30 May, ‘to smash Czechoslovakia by military action in the near future...xDC;N) for the invasion of Czechoslovakia. A small war at least seemed imminent...
The Munich Analogy
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy ...to challenge him on his takeover of Czechoslovakia in the hope that German aggression...the predominantly German sections of Czechoslovakia. In order to win Italian support...tortured and oppressed" Germans of Czechoslovakia, in point of fact the most democratic...
Vladimir Meciar
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...role in the breakup of the former Czechoslovakia. Vladimir Meciar, a lawyer and onetime...socialist, pro-Soviet leadership in Czechoslovakia. Held as a heroic figure among some...Meciar was born in 1942 in Zvolen, Czechoslovakia-in the Slovak region of the country...

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Czechoslovakia
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History Czechoslovakia A country which emerged out of the...autonomy emerged. Still, interwar Czechoslovakia was not overcome by internal collapse...the Warsaw Pact troops arrived in Czechoslovakia and entered Prague. There followed...
O Slavnosti a Hostech
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...A Report on the Party and the Guests) Czechoslovakia, 1968 Director: Jan Němec...running time: 70 minutes. Released Czechoslovakia, 1968. Filmed 1966 in Czechoslovakia. Producer: Carlo Ponti; screenplay...
Weiss, Jiři
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...time of Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, sought political asylum in...Awards: Artist of Merit, Czechoslovakia. Films as Director: 1935...the Shadows 1939 The Rape of Czechoslovakia 1941 Eternal Prague 1943 Before...
Dosuzkov, Theodor (1899-1982)
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...then Russia, and died in Prague, Czechoslovakia, on January 19, 1982. He was the...survived the German occupation of Czechoslovakia from 1939 to 1945, during which he...properly trained psychoanalyst in all of Czechoslovakia. Subsequently, he received the professional...
Nemec, Jan
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...unit, Prague, 1972; able to leave Czechoslovakia, worked with Veronika Schamoni in...American universities; returned to Czechoslovakia, 1989, to direct V ž...struggle to screen the film within Czechoslovakia. After completing The Martyrs of...
Baron Prasil
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers BARON PRASIL (Baron Munchausen) Czechoslovakia, 1961 Director: Karel Zeman Production...Once named National Artist of Czechoslovakia, director, designer, artist, and...puppet entertainment long enjoyed in Czechoslovakia since the seventeenth century, and...
Little Entente
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...1920–38) Alliance of Czechoslovakia, Romania, and the new Kingdom of...leaned towards Hitler's THIRD REICH , Czechoslovakia signed a non-aggression treaty with...and Romania were unwilling to give Czechoslovakia a pledge of military assistance against...
Central Europe, Relations with
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...consisting of Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, western Ukraine, and sometimes...as properly belonging to Germany. Czechoslovakia fortified its borders against the...and France gave the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany to buy peace. Germany...
Heyrovský, Jaroslav
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...xFD; , Jaroslav ( b . Prague, Czechoslovakia, 20 December 1890; d . Prague...Heyrovsk ý academic rise in Czechoslovakia was swift; in 1924 he became extraordinary...majority of Germans, who had to leave Czechoslovakia after World War II, B ö hm...
Chamberlain, (Arthur) Neville
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military ...gave Hitler the Sudeten (an area of Czechoslovakia, one fifth of the country and rich...when Hitler invaded and conquered Czechoslovakia in 1939. After Germany's annexation of Czechoslovakia, Chamberlain guaranteed Poland against...

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First post-reform Czechoslovakia economic conference organized for Western businesses. (International Conference on Trade, Cooperation and Investment Opportunities in Czechoslovakia)
PR Newswire; 1/17/1990; 700+ words ; FIRST POST REFORM CZECHOSLOVAKIA ECONOMIC CONFERENCE ORGANIZED...and investment conference in Czechoslovakia. The "International Conference...and Investment Opportunities in Czechoslovakia" will be held Feb. 14-16...
Czechoslovakia: Anvil of the Cold War.
Magazine article from: Monthly Review; 1/1/1992; ; 700+ words ; The "Betrayal" of Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia: Anvil of the Cold War, by John D. and Sylvia Crane...45.00. In the period between the two world wars, Czechoslovakia and its philosopher-president, Tomas G. Masaryk...
1948 "The physicians in Czechoslovakia are now becoming aware ...".(A Look Back)
Magazine article from: Physical Therapy; 12/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...therapy of a sort has been practiced in Czechoslovakia for hundreds of years [at spas such...With the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1939 all universities were closed...occupational therapist to come to Czechoslovakia to help in the establishment of a...
Washington's Castillo signs agriculture agreement with Czechoslovakia. (A. Mario Castillo) (Czechoslovak-United States of America Consortium)
PR Newswire; 6/21/1989; 700+ words ; ...CASTILLO SIGNS AGRICULTURE AGREEMENT WITH CZECHOSLOVAKIA WASHINGTON, June 21 /PRNewswire...Ministry of Agriculture and Food of Czechoslovakia during a just-concluded visit to Czechoslovakia as the guest of the minister of agriculture...
Why did LBJ allow Soviets to invade Czechoslovakia?
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 8/19/1988; ; 700+ words ; ...Unfortunately, the warning came too late for Czechoslovakia, because three days earlier Warsaw...secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. Among the reforms, which included...that warning not issued on behalf of Czechoslovakia before the night of Aug. 20-21...
Restoration in Czechoslovakia.
Magazine article from: Monthly Review; 4/1/1991; ; 700+ words ; RESTORATION IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA A year and a half after the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, the country's post-communist leadership...government's economic doctrine. While Czechoslovakia is by no means alone in Eastern Europe...
Czechoslovakia's New Age: A Farewell to Arms?
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 2/11/1990; ; 700+ words ; ...Prague as the headquarters of Omnipol, Czechoslovakia's state arms trading company. Few...have suggested Adolf Hitler occupied Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II partly...weeks ago, Dienstbier announced that Czechoslovakia was stopping all arms sales immediately...
Bell Atlantic, U S West sign agreements to help upgrade Czechoslovakia telephone network.
PR Newswire; 11/16/1990; 700+ words ; ...WEST SIGN AGREEMENTS TO HELP UPGRADE CZECHOSLOVAKIA TELEPHONE NETWORK PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, Nov. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Bell Atlantic...cellular mobile and packet data networks in Czechoslovakia. Under terms of the agreements, one...
Analysis: The cost of forgiveness, Pt.1, As its disintegration in 1992 proved, Czechoslovakia may have been merely an artificial multi-ethnic chimera. But it was also an industrial and military powerhouse.
News Wire article from: United Press International; 4/18/2002; 700+ words ; ...army. The Sudeten was a region of Czechoslovakia bordering on Germany and Austria and...demanded to have an autonomy, which Czechoslovakia refused to grant them. It feared...Such calamity would have deprived Czechoslovakia of important industrial and mineral...
Czechoslovakia near getting MFN status. (most favored nation trade status for a major exporter of men's clothing and textiles)
Magazine article from: Daily News Record; 2/8/1990; ; 700+ words ; CZECHOSLOVAKIA NEAR GETTING MFN STATUS WASHINGTON...most favored nation trade status for Czechoslovakia -- a major exporter of men's clothing...a foreign country. In the past, Czechoslovakia has not been granted a waiver of...