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Name: Dismemberement of Czechoslovakia

Type: Event

Start: 1938 AD

End: 1939 AD

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On 29 September, the Munich Agreement was signed by Germany, Italy, France, and Britain. The Munich Agreement stipulated that Czechoslovakia must cede Sudeten territory to Germany. Germany dismembered Czechoslovakia.

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  • March 1939: Carpatho-Ukraine was proclaimed an independent republic, headed by president Avgustyn Voloshyn.
  • October 1938: As Czechoslovakia was being absorbed into the German Reich, Zaolzie, the Czech half of Cieszyn, was annexed by Poland in 1938 following the Munich Agreement and the First Vienna Award. At noon on September 30, Poland gave an ultimatum to the Czechoslovak government. It demanded the immediate evacuation of Czech troops and police from Zaolzie and gave Prague until noon the following day. At 11:45 a.m. on October 1 the Czech foreign ministry called the Polish ambassador in Prague and told him that Poland could have what it wanted.
  • March 1939: Eastern Slovakia conquered by Kingdom of Hungary.
  • November 1938: Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy sought a non-violent way to enforce the territorial claims of the Kingdom of Hungary and to revise the Treaty of Trianon of 1920. The First Vienna Award separated largely Magyar-populated territories in southern Slovakia and southern Carpathian Rus from Czechoslovakia and "awarded" them to Hungary.
  • March 1939: Carpatho-Ukraine was returned to the Kingdom of Hungary, crushing all local resistance.
  • October 1938: On 29 September, the Munich Agreement was signed by Germany, Italy, France, and Britain. The Munich Agreement stipulated that Czechoslovakia must cede the Sudeten territory to Germany. German occupation of the Sudetenland would be completed by 10 October.
  • March 1939: The Slovak Diet convened and unanimously declared Slovak independence. The Slovak Republic (Germany) was a partially-recognized client state of Nazi Germany which existed from 14 March 1939.
  • March 1939: The Czechoslovak Republic was dissolved when Germany invaded it on 15 March 1939, and annexed the Czech region into the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.

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