The history of the Czech Republic and Slovakia
The Czechs and Slovaks of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire merged to form Czechoslovakia following the First World War and came under Soviet influence after World War II. With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989, Czechoslovakia regained its freedom and, on January 1, 1993, split to form the C...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| PhysicalDescription: | 1 online resource (xx, 287 p.) maps. |
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Santa Barbara, Calif.
Greenwood,
c2011.
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| ISBN: | 9780313363061 0313363064 |
| Series: | Greenwood histories of the modern nations.
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| Online Access: | EBSCOhost |
Table of Contents:
- Timeline of historical events
- The Czech Republic and Slovakia today
- Origins and medieval legacies
- The late Middle Ages
- Religious controversies and military conflicts (1400's-1700's)
- Into the modern era : reform, revolution, and national awakening (1740-1914)
- The First World War and the first Czechoslovak Republic (1914-1938)
- The Munich Settlement and the Second World War (1938-1945)
- The postwar era and the communist regime (1945-1989)
- From the velvet revolution and the "velvet divorce" and the two republics (1989-2009)
- Notable people in the history of the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
