which lasted less than half a year before Germany occupied the rest of Czechoslovakia in March 1939.

History

The independence of Czechoslovakia was proclaimed on 28 October 1918 in Prague. Several ethnic groups and territories with different historical, political, and economic traditions were obliged to be blended into a new state structure. The economy of the new Czechoslovak Republic had a reasonable future because Slovak agriculture could sustain the

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