German occupation of Czechoslovakia

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The German occupation of Czechoslovakia was the 1938–1939 takeover and subsequent control of Czech and Slovak territories by Nazi Germany, marking a key step in its expansion that led directly into World War II.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Nazi occupation
historical event
military occupation
cause Munich Agreement
surface form: Munich Agreement of 1938

appeasement policy of Western powers
expansionist policy of Nazi Germany
country Nazi Germany
describedBySource Czech historiography
Slovak historiography
historiography of World War II
effect Holocaust
surface form: Holocaust in the Czech lands and Slovakia

end of the First Czechoslovak Republic
further destabilization of Europe before World War II
postwar expulsion of Sudeten Germans
start of the Second Czechoslovak Republic
strengthening of anti-Nazi resistance
endTime 1945
followedBy Third Czechoslovak Republic
liberation of Czechoslovakia
hasPart German annexation of parts of southern Slovakia
German annexation of the Hlučín Region
Munich Agreement
surface form: German annexation of the Sudetenland

German annexation of the Hlučín Region
surface form: German annexation of Český Těšín area

creation of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
establishment of the Slovak Republic
occupation of Bohemia and Moravia
location Czech lands
Czechoslovakia
Slovakia
participant Adolf Hitler
Czechoslovak resistance
surface form: Czech resistance movement

Czechoslovakia
Gestapo
Nazi Germany
SS
Slovak Republic (1939–1945)
Slovak resistance movement
Wehrmacht
partOf World War II
precededBy Munich Agreement
surface form: Annexation of Sudetenland

Munich Agreement
significantEvent Aryanization of Jewish property
German military administration in Slovakia (1944–1945)
German repression of Czech resistance
Germanization policies in the Protectorate
Ležáky massacre
Lidice massacre
Prague uprising
Slovak National Uprising
Theresienstadt concentration camp
surface form: Terezín ghetto

assassination of Reinhard Heydrich
closure of Czech universities in 1939
creation of the Slovak puppet state
deportation of Czech and Slovak Jews to extermination camps
dismemberment of Czechoslovakia
establishment of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
execution and imprisonment of Czech intelligentsia
forced labor of Czechoslovak citizens
martial law in the Protectorate
persecution of Jews in Czechoslovakia
startTime 1938
1938-10-01

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Czechoslovak foreign ministry-in-exile appliesToPeriod German occupation of Czechoslovakia
Second Czechoslovak Republic government endEvent German occupation of Czechoslovakia
Anschluss of Austria followedBy German occupation of Czechoslovakia
Munich Agreement followedBy German occupation of Czechoslovakia
this entity surface form: German occupation of Bohemia and Moravia
remilitarization of the Rhineland followedBy German occupation of Czechoslovakia
Liberation of western Czechoslovakia hasCause German occupation of Czechoslovakia
this entity surface form: Nazi German occupation of Czechoslovakia
Protectorate ministries historicalContext German occupation of Czechoslovakia
Reich Protector historicalContext German occupation of Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovak Army notableEvent German occupation of Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovak resistance opposed German occupation of Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovak National Committee opposedTo German occupation of Czechoslovakia
Munich Agreement precededEvent German occupation of Czechoslovakia
this entity surface form: German occupation of the Sudetenland
Reich Protector relatedTo German occupation of Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovak resistance significantEvent German occupation of Czechoslovakia
this entity surface form: German occupation of Bohemia and Moravia
Czechoslovakia significantEvent German occupation of Czechoslovakia