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.
- 1938: occupation of border regions of Czechoslovakia following the Munich Agreement which allowed a partition of the country (see also Western betrayal):
- 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.

