Article: Czechoslovakia, Relations with
Encyclopedia of Russian History;      700+ words ...CZECHOSLOVAKIA, RELATIONS WITH Both the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia were born from the collapse of European empires at...Russian Empire, the Paris Peace Conference crafted Czechoslovakia from Austro-Hungarian lands. From the outset, the...

Article: Czechoslovakia, Invasion of
Encyclopedia of Russian History;      537 words ...CZECHOSLOVAKIA, INVASION OF Late in the evening of August 20, 1968, Czechoslovakia was invaded by five of its Warsaw-Pact allies: the...means. The possibility of military intervention in Czechoslovakia had been entertained in the Brezhnev Politburo from...

Article: Retiring Hitler and "appeasement" from the national security debate.(Adolf Hitler)
Parameters;  June 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ......Jimmy Carter has routinely invoked the Munich analogy as a means of inflating national security...with evil rather than slay it. The Munich analogy informed every major threatened or...President John F. Kennedy invoked the Munich analogy during the Cuban Missile Crisis, warning...

Article: Munich agreement
The Oxford Companion to World War II;      577 words ......Austria in March 1938, the conquest of Czechoslovakia came next on Hitler's programme for...laid down on 30 May, ‘to smash Czechoslovakia by military action in the near future...FALL GRÜN) for the invasion of Czechoslovakia. A small war at least seemed imminent...

Article: Not Kafkaesque. (political and economic climate in Czechoslovakia)
National Review;  March 2, 1992 ;     700+ words ......privatization in Czechoslovkia; second, the fate of Czechoslovakia in Czechoslovakia. That's not surprising, for the country is...Yugoslavia. Unlike neighbors such as Hungary, Czechoslovakia enjoyed a generation of democracy from its...

Article: Czechoslovakia on their minds: neocon news flash: Hitler invades Georgia.
The American Conservative;  August 25, 2008 ;     700+ words ......neocon narrative is complete without Czechoslovakia. Imagine your average Weekly Standard...that come to his mind when he hears Czechoslovakia. Rest assured, he would respond with...Kosovo, or Kuwait, or the Kurds) with Czechoslovakia and associating his preferred aggressor...

Article: Czechoslovakia
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      700+ words ......Slovakia ) became independent states and Czechoslovakia ceased to exist. (For history prior to...Slovakia .) HistoryThe Emergence of Czechoslovakia The creation of Czechoslovakia was the culmination of the long struggle...

Article: Stastny, Peter
Notable Sports Figures;      700+ words ......brother Anton defected from their native Czechoslovakia in 1980 to play in the NHL, they unleashed...Bratislava, a city in the Slovak region of Czechoslovakia. Growing up in an ice hockey-crazed...the national team that represented Czechoslovakia in international competitions. In...

Article: Munich Pact
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      321 words ......the Sudetenland (see Sudetes ) of Czechoslovakia for an improved status. In September...Sudetenland. Disorders broke out in Czechoslovakia, and martial law was proclaimed. Meetings...by Hitler and Ribbentrop. Neither Czechoslovakia nor the Soviet Union, which had offered...

Article: š
Encyclopedia of World Biography;      700+ words ......honor its commitment to defend Czechoslovakia against German aggression led to the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia in 1938, and Europe's postwar...the provisional government of Czechoslovakia on Oct. 14, 1918, with Bene...

Article: Belgium Studies Czechoslovakia Breakup
AP Online;  September 11, 2007 ;     700+ words ...BRUSSELS, Belgium - The split of Czechoslovakia into two countries 15 years ago has...edition to the Jan. 1, 1993, breakup of Czechoslovakia, calling it a "civilized and noble...politicians, and comparisons with Czechoslovakia keep popping up. For the moment, the...

Article: Vladimir Meciar
Encyclopedia of World Biography;      700+ words ......role in the breakup of the former Czechoslovakia. Vladimir Meciar, a lawyer and onetime...socialist, pro-Soviet leadership in Czechoslovakia. Held as a heroic figure among some...Meciar was born in 1942 in Zvolen, Czechoslovakia-in the Slovak region of the country-in...

Article: Telling the story of a brutal time: priest films documentary about Christians in communist Czechoslovakia. (World).
National Catholic Reporter;  January 25, 2002 ;     700+ words ......his examination of how religion in Czechoslovakia fared under communism. The documentary...Baltic states and Poland, the third at Czechoslovakia, the fourth at the Balkans and Hungary...researching 40 years of communist rule in Czechoslovakia, which in 1993 became the Czech Republic...

Article: Sudetenland
The Oxford Companion to World War II;      271 words ......originally the mountainous rim of Czechoslovakia's north-eastern Bohemia and northern...the German-inhabited regions of the Czechoslovakia contiguous to Austria and Germany...settlement put the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia. The ethnic composition of Bohemia...