Occupation of Czechoslovakia

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The term Occupation of Czechoslovakia may refer to the following events:

• The occupation of Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany and its allies:
  • 1938: occupation of border regions of Czechoslovakia following the Munich Agreement which allowed a partition of the country (see also Western betrayal):
    • in October, German troops annexed the Sudetenland – see German occupation of Czechoslovakia;
    • in October, Polish troops annexed the Zaolzie area and some smaller areas on the Slovak border;
    • in November, after the First Vienna Arbitration, Hungary annexed parts of southern Slovakia and southern Carpathian Rus.
  • 1939: occupation of Bohemia and Moravia by Nazi Germany as the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia; occupation of small parts of Slovakia; the rest of Ruthenia occupied by Hungary.
  • 1944: occupation of the remaining part of Slovakia by Nazi Germany in response to the anti-Nazi Slovak National Uprising.

• The occupation of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union and its allies (see History of Czechoslovakia (1948–1989)):
  • 1968: the troops of five Warsaw Pact countries entered the country to suppress the Prague Spring. The Soviet Union later established a permanent "Central Group of Forces" in Czechoslovakia. The last Soviet troops left the country in 1991.