Slovakia

From Turtledove

Slovakia is a small country in eastern Europe. The modern state has at various times been part of Moravia, Hungary, Austria-Hungary, and Czechoslovakia.

During World War II, Germany effectively split Czechoslovakia in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and Slovakia, with Slovakia joining the Axis. After the war, the Czechoslovakia was reconstituted and came under Soviet influence for the duration of the Cold War.

As the Soviet Union collapsed, Czechoslovakia opted to separate once again, and Slovakia became an independent nation in 1993.

[edit] Slovakia in Worldwar

Slovakia was dominated by Germany and was forced to join the Axis. Though small, Slovakia was not conquered by the Race when the Conquest Fleet arrived on Earth in 1942.

Though it did not have diplomatic relations with the Race and had not been invited to attend the peace conference convened in Cairo by Atvar, the independence of Slovakia was ensured when Joachim von Ribbentrop made it clear that Slovakia was under German protection.

Slovakia contributed troops to the Polish Front in the Race-German War of 1965. Any hope it may have had of doing otherwise ended abruptly when the Germans destroyed Bucharest to punish Romania for attempting to make a separate peace with the Race.