b. Czech Republic and Slovakia (Czechoslovakia). 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History

The Encyclopedia of World History. 2001.


b. Czech Republic and Slovakia (Czechoslovakia)


1945, April 5

Klement Gottwald, vice prime minister of Czechoslovakia and a leader of the Czechoslovak Communist Party, declared that the new Czechoslovak state would be based on the equality of Czechs and Slovaks.	1

May 10

The new government moved to Prague. In a sweeping political purge, many collaborators were tried and executed. Former president Emil Hácha died in prison; Konrad Henlein committed suicide.	2

June 6

Edvard Bene, president of Czechoslovakia, declared that the German and Hungarian minorities had to be expelled from his country.	3

June 29

Czechoslovakia ceded Ruthenia to the Soviet Union.	4

Aug. 3

All Germans and Hungarians in Czechoslovakia were deprived of their citizenship and subesquently expelled from the country.	5

Oct. 14

A provisional National Assembly was elected by indirect suffrage.	6

Oct. 18

The government embarked on a far-reaching program of industrial nationalization and agricultural reform.	7


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