3. ↑ 1918 – T.G. Masaryk – 1 st president of Czechoslovakia ← 1939 – Jan Opletal was killed 1933 – 1945 Adolf Hitler German dictator ↓ ↑ 1938 - 1945 - Sudettenland 1935 – 1948 Edvard Beneš 2 nd president →

4. 1940s

6. ↑ Lidice Ležáky ↓

7.  On 12 December 1943 the Czecho–Slovak– Soviet Treaty  The Czechoslovakian representation led into new international alliances after the Munich isolation

11.  Winner of the 1952 Olympic Games in running

12.  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

14.  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.

15. Rudolf Slánský Dr. Milada Horáková Gustav Husák

19.  1967 – removed from his position of the President  He became the most powerful man in the state

20.  A period of political liberation in Czechoslovakia  The first secretary KSČ - Dubček introduced reforms known as “socialism with a human face“

21.  Soviet union didn‘t like these reforms and Dubček was removed from the office  President Antonín Novotný was replaced by General Ludvík Svoboda

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

25. 1975 – 1989 president Gustav Husák 1977 – Václav Havel

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

34.  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

43. Kateřina Neumannová ↓ Jan Železný → ← Jaromír Jágr