Czech history

1930s

↑ 1918 – T.G. Masaryk – 1st president of Czechoslovakia

← 1939 – Jan Opletal was killed

1933 – 1945 Adolf Hitler

German dictator ↓

↑ 1938 - 1945 - Sudettenland

1935 – 1948 Edvard Beneš 2nd president →

1940s

REINHARD HEYDRICH - ASSASSINATION

HEYDRICHIADE – BURNING OF LIDICE AND LEŽÁKY

↑ Lidice

Ležáky ↓

On 12 December 1943 the Czecho–Slovak–Soviet Treaty

The Czechoslovakian representation led into new international alliances after the Munich isolation

ONLY THE RED ARMY COULD LIBERATE PRAGUE

E. BENEŠ RESIGNED AND DIED IN SEPTEMBER

1950s

EMIL ZÁTOPEK Winner of the 1952 Olympic Games in

running

1953 the currency reform - stabilization of the national economy to reduce the black trade

During this time Antonín Novotný was the most powerful man in the state

POST-WAR RECONSTRUCTION OF THE COUNTRY - BUILDING YOUTH

POLITICAL TRIALS It was directed against : Milada Horáková (to death and

executed) Rudolf Slánský (general secretary

of KSČ) – and 13 other communist leaders were convicted

Gustav Husák belonged among the most important Slovak communists, who ended up in prison.

Rudolf Slánský Dr. Milada Horáková

Gustav Husák

1960s

GOLDEN AGE OF CZECH CULTURE

OTTO WICHTERLE -> INVENTOR OF CONTACT LENSES

ANTONÍN NOVOTNÝ 1967 – removed from his position of the

President He became the most powerful man in the state

“ THE PRAGUE SPRING“ A period of political liberation in Czechoslovakia The first secretary KSČ - Dubček introduced

reforms known as “socialism with a human face“

1968 Soviet union didn‘t like these reforms

and Dubček was removed from the office President Antonín Novotný was replaced

by General Ludvík Svoboda

1970s

MILOŠ FORMAN - DIRECTOR

Oscar 1975 -> One flew over the Cuckoo´s nest

1975 – 1989 president Gustav Husák

1977 – Václav Havel

VLADIMÍR REMEK – THE FIRST CZECH COSMONAUT

1980s

JAROSLAV SEIFERT – WEARER OF NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE

ON Friday 17th November 1989 a mass student demonstration to commemorate international students day and the 50th anniversary of the death of Jan Opletal took place

POLICEMEN BLOCKED ALL ESCAPE ROUTES AND BEAT THE

STUDENTS

ON DECEMBER 29TH 1989, THE TRANSFORMED NATIONAL

ASSEMBLY ELECTED VÁCLAV HAVEL AS PRESIDENT

1990s

DISINTEGRATION OF THE CZECHOSLOVAK FEDERATIVE REPUBLIC AND THE

ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC

On January 1, 1993 a new state – the Czech Republic was founded

Václav Havel was the first President of the Czech Republic, on January 26, 1993

On March 12, 1999, together with Hungary and Poland, the Czech Republic was accepted into NATO

Václav Havel

WINNERS OF THE HOCKEY WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP -> NAGANO

2002

ENTRY INTO NATO

2003

28.2 2003 THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC VÁCLAV HAVEL WAS SUCCEEDED BY VÁCLAV KLAUS

2004

ON THE 1 MAY 2004 THE CZECH REPUBLIC BECAME A MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

Some important sportsmen from 2000

Kateřina Neumannová ↓

Jan Železný →

← Jaromír

Jágr

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