Czechoslovakia
Prague
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- …1939Czechoslovakia
- 1939-03-15Protectorate of Bohemia and MoraviaProtectorateSlovak StateSlovak StateCzechoslovakiagovernment in exile
- 1945-05-09Czechoslovakia
- simplified version (without arms)
Course of events
- 15 March 1939
Occupied by the Axis
Dismembered in March 1939: German Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, a Slovak state allied with Germany, Carpathian Ruthenia annexed by Hungary.
- 9 May 1945
Liberated
Prague uprising from 5 May; Red Army entered Prague on 9 May 1945. US forces in western Bohemia.
Events involving this country
- 27 May 1942Assassination of Heydrich and the reprisals (Lidice)
- 10 Jun 1942Lidice massacre
- 29 Aug 1944Slovak National Uprising
- 5 May 1945Prague uprising
Data completeness: borders c. 1938, status at country level; occupation zones, annexations and front lines as approximate snapshots. Units and offensives: selected, incomplete sets; archive: only items with a confirmed licence, still being added.