Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia is the name of a nation that was located in Europe for three separate periods of time during the 20th century before its final dissolution during the 1990s. In the aftermath of the First World War, ethnic tensions arose in the Austro-Hungarian Empire which culminated in the 1922-1923 Austro-Hungarian Civil War. The League of Nations successfully negotiated the end of the empire, and its division into several ethnic states, namely Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia.

Size: 33,752 mi2 (87,418 km2) Population (1939): 10,000,000; (1992) 15,600,000

Timeline

 * 1923: Czechoslovakia founded
 * 1929: Great Depression hits Europe, causing a downturn in Czechoslovakian industry, and increasing the appeal of communist and fascist minority parties.
 * 1936: Czechoslovakia votes in a fascist party, funded by French, Italian, Spanish, and Polish fascists
 * 1939: Poland and France inaugurate World War 2 with a simultaneous attack on Germany. Czechoslovakia overrun German Bohemia and Sudetenland, hoping to take back their border fortifications from the Austrians. The dangerous split in the eastern and western fascist branches is healed with an agreement that Austria would gain Bavaria in exchange, while France would take Alsace-Lorraine, Baden, Württemberg, and the Rhenish German lands, and Poland would take lands east of Stettin, Brandenburg, and Saxony, effectively dismembering Germany.
 * 1945: The Second World War ends with the defeat of France, Poland, Turkey, Italy, Romania, and Bulgaria by the Allied Powers. Czechoslovakia loses Carpathian Ruthenia to the USSR, which gives it to Ukraine. With FDR's death, President Truman convinces the Confederates and British to give Czechoslovakia to the USSR in the Berlin Conference.
 * 1956: Simultaneous revolutions in Hungary and Czechoslovakia threaten Soviet control of the puppet nations. Germany, Austria, the UK, US, and CS, with convincing from the UK, Austria, and Germany, agree that if the USSR continues to maintain Hungary, it must give up Czechia apart from Slovakia due to its position right under Germany and surrounded by Austria.
 * 1957: Czechoslovakia dissolves into Czechia and the Slovak Socialist Republic. Religious suppression in Czechia ends, and a revival leads to a flourishing of the Hussite and Moravian churches.
 * 1989: Slovak Socialist Republic falls, and formally reunites with Czechia to reform Czechoslovakia
 * 1999: Czechoslovakia peacefully separates again into Czechia and Slovakia due to nationalist tensions, along with the disparities between the two nations' industrial capacities and the monetary drain on Czechia to try to bring Slovakia back up to Czech standards.