चेकोस्लोवाकिया
Sign in to saveAlso known as Czecho-Slovakia, cs, TCH, Československo, Federation of Czechoslovakia, People's Republic of Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia ( ; Czech and , Česko-Slovensko) was a country in Central Europe created in 1918, as Czecho-Slovakia (until 1920), when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary. In 1938, after the Munich Agreement, the Sudetenland became part of Nazi Germany. Between 1939 and 1945, the state ceased to exist, as Slovakia proclaimed its independence and Carpathian Ruthenia became part of Hungary, while the German Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia was proclaimed in the remainder of the Czech Lands. In 1939, after the outbreak of World War II, former Czechoslovak president Edvard Beneš f