Czechoslovakia was carved out of Austria-Hungary in 1918, and was the only country in Central Europe that remained a democracy during the interwar period. The western part of the country had a large German-speaking population and in 1938 Hitler demanded that the main German-speaking areas be handed to Germany. This was accepted, with reluctance, by Britain and France in the Munich Agreement (1938). In March 1939 Germany occupied the rest of Bohemia and Moravia and set up Slovakia as a puppet state. One can ask with hindsight whether Czechoslovakia really 'made sense' as a country, but after World War 2 restoring the country more or less to its former borders was politically essential. After the Velvet Revolution of December 1989, when the country threw off communism, a rift soon became apparent between the more prosperous Czech area and the 'rust belt' that was Slovakia. In the latter, nationalists demanded independence and many Czech politicians were only too delighted to get rid of an economically backward region ... After a referendum, the two part of Czechoslovakia split with effect from 1 January 1993.
The "elites" were fighting for the state property
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The "elites" were fighting for the state property
Yes, it became the Czech Republic, and Slovakia - two countries.
Czechoslovakia peacefully split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia on January 1, 1993.
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No longer. It has split into Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
yes. it has split into the czech (pronounced 'check') republic and slovakia.
I believe it was Czechoslovakia, which split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Czechoslovakia split into two countries in 1993: the Czech Republic and Slovakia. This split was peaceful and the two countries have maintained friendly relations since then.
At 1st January 1993 Czechoslovakia was splited into Slovakia and Czech Republic.
Czechoslovakia split into two countries: Czech for the Czechs and Slovakia for the Slovaks.
The main language spoken in Czechoslovakia is Czech. Slovak is also widely spoken in certain regions. Additionally, other minority languages spoken in Czechoslovakia include Romani, Hungarian, and Polish.