Second Czechoslovak Republic

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The Second Czechoslovak Republic was the short-lived, post-Munich Agreement state that existed from late 1938 to March 1939, marked by political instability, territorial losses, and the prelude to Nazi occupation.

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Label Occurrences
Second Czechoslovak Republic canonical 17
Czechoslovakia 4

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Predicate Object
instanceOf former state
interwar state
capital Prague
characterizedBy authoritarian tendencies
ethnic tensions
political instability
territorial dismemberment
continent Europe
country Czechoslovakia
currency Czechoslovak koruna
demographicGroup Czechs
Germans
Hungarians
Jews
Rusyns
surface form: Ruthenians

Slovaks
dissolutionEvent German occupation of Czechoslovakia
surface form: German occupation of Bohemia and Moravia

Slovak declaration of independence (1939)
endDate 1939-03-15
eventCause Munich Agreement
followedBy Carpathian Ruthenia
surface form: Hungarian-occupied Carpatho-Ukraine

Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Slovak Republic (1939–1945)
follows First Czechoslovak Republic
surface form: Czechoslovakia (1918–1938)

First Czechoslovak Republic
foreignPolicyOrientation pro-German
governmentType parliamentary republic
hadAutonomousRegion Carpathian Ruthenia
Slovakia
headOfGovernment Rudolf Beran
headOfState Emil Hácha
historicalEra Interwar period
World War II prelude
legalSystem civil law
legislature National Assembly of Czechoslovakia
locatedIn Central Europe
lostRegion Sudetenland
Zaolzie
Carpathian Ruthenia
surface form: southern Carpathian Ruthenia

southern Slovakia
officialLanguage Czech
Slovak
partOf history of Czechoslovakia
politicalStatus partially sovereign state under German influence
precededBy First Czechoslovak Republic
predecessorHeadOfState Edvard Beneš
startDate 1938-10-01
territorialLossTo Hungary
Nazi Germany
Poland

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Czechoslovakism wasProminentInPeriod Second Czechoslovak Republic
Second Czechoslovak Republic government existedDuring Second Czechoslovak Republic
Carpatho-Ukraine partOf Second Czechoslovak Republic
President of Czechoslovakia existedDuring Second Czechoslovak Republic
National Assembly of Czechoslovakia countryGoverned Second Czechoslovak Republic
Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia jurisdiction Second Czechoslovak Republic
Rudolf Beran participantIn Second Czechoslovak Republic
Jan Syrový headOfGovernment Second Czechoslovak Republic
this entity surface form: Czechoslovakia
Emil Hácha participatedIn Second Czechoslovak Republic
Zaolzie annexation of 1938 countryInvolved Second Czechoslovak Republic
this entity surface form: Czechoslovakia
Zaolzie annexation of 1938 tookFrom Second Czechoslovak Republic
this entity surface form: Czechoslovakia
Karl Hermann Frank countryOfDeath Second Czechoslovak Republic
this entity surface form: Czechoslovakia
Carpathian Ruthenia wasPartOf Second Czechoslovak Republic
Third Czechoslovak Republic precededBy Second Czechoslovak Republic
First Czechoslovak Republic successor Second Czechoslovak Republic
Government of Czechoslovakia governedDuring Second Czechoslovak Republic
Ministry of the Interior of Czechoslovakia existedDuring Second Czechoslovak Republic
Flag of Czechoslovakia usedDuring Second Czechoslovak Republic
Coat of arms of Czechoslovakia usedBy Second Czechoslovak Republic