Czechoslovakia was a united country in Central Europe for much of the 20th century, but in 1993 it peacefully split into two independent nations: the Czech Republic and Slovakia. What caused this ...

During Czechoslovakia’s “springtime of freedom,” First Party Secretary Alexander Dubcek was the symbol of the country’s new liberal spirit. Now, in the winter of its agony, Dubcek has ...

This time, it’s the turn of Czechoslovakia in 1976. You probably know exactly how it ended, but how did it begin? What happened along the way? How did the final against West Germany play out ...

1918 - Republic of Czechoslovakia proclaimed. Tomas Masaryk elected president. 1935 - Masaryk succeeded as president by Edvard Benes. Nazis take over 1938 - Munich Conference results in cession of the ...

Thirty years on since the breakup of Czechoslovakia, Slovakia and the Czech Republic enjoy a harmonious relationship 31 December marked the 30th anniversary of the break-up of Czechoslovakia ...

The gathering was not the 2025 Riyad summit on Ukraine, but the 1938 Munich meeting to decide the fate of Czechoslovakia.

Former President Donald Trump‘s late first wife, Ivana Trump, was under an FBI counterintelligence inquiry stemming from allegations over ties to her home country of Czechoslovakia, according to ...

After the representatives of the Czechoslovak government returned from negotiations in Moscow at the end of August 1968, following the Prague Spring—a period of political liberalisation and reform in ...

This month marks the 70th anniversary of the infamous Slánský trial, a 1952 antisemitic show trial against Communist Party members in Czechoslovakia. Ten defendants of Jewish origin, including ...

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia, Sept 12 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that the Soviet Union's decision to send tanks into Hungary and Czechoslovakia to crush mass protests ...

1957 - Novotny becomes president after Zapotocky's death. 1960 - Czechoslovakia becomes Czechoslovak Socialist Republic under new constitution. 1963 - Slansky and other victims of Stalinist purges ...

31 December marked the 30th anniversary of the break-up of Czechoslovakia; one of the few cases in history when a state has been divided up without a single life being lost. Today the Czech ...