Czechoslovakia

From Turtledove

Czechoslovakia (Czech and Slovak: Československo; after 1990: Česko-Slovensko) was a sovereign state in Central Europe that existed from October 1918 (upon declaring its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire) until 1992 (with a government-in-exile during the World War II period). On January 1, 1993, Czechoslovakia peacefully split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

After the Munich Agreement of 1938 in which Britain and France forced Czechoslovakia to cede the German-speaking Sudetenland to Nazi Germany despite existing treaties in what is commonly known as part of the Western Betrayal. The still-democratic state briefly existed as a basically non-functioning entity at the mercy of its fascist neighbors. In 1939 Czechoslovakia was invaded by Nazi Germany and divided into the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and the puppet Slovak State. Much of Slovakia and all of Subcarpathian Ruthenia was annexed by Hungary.

[edit] Czechoslovakia in Worldwar

The Race recognized Germany's claim to Czechoslovakia as part of the Greater German Reich following the Peace of Cairo in 1944.

This region was heavily industrialized and supported the German war effort in both World War II and the war against the Race's Conquest Fleet. It was also heavily damaged by atomic attacks during the Race-German War of 1965 due to its proximity to Lizard-held Poland and its use as a staging area for the German invasion of their colony.

[edit] Czechoslovakia in The Man With the Iron Heart

Reinhard Heydrich was the Reichsprotektor of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia created from Czechoslovakia. In 1942, Heydrich narrowly avoided assassination at the hands of British backed Czech partisans in the streets of Prague.

After World War II ended, Czechoslovakia, like Poland, began expelling all ethnic Germans from its borders. Heydrich's German Freedom Front was active in Czechoslovakia as a result.