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Western betrayal. Western betrayal is the view that the United Kingdom, France, and sometimes the United States failed to meet their legal, diplomatic, military, and moral obligations with respect to the Czechoslovak and Polish states during the prelude to and aftermath of World War II. It also sometimes refers to the treatment of other Central ...
The Prague uprising ( Czech: Pražské povstání) was a partially successful attempt by the Czech resistance movement to liberate the city of Prague from German occupation in May 1945, during the end of World War II. The preceding six years of occupation had fuelled anti-German sentiment and the rapid advance of Allied forces from the Red Army ...
Dwight D. Eisenhower. Dwight David Eisenhower ( / ˈaɪzənhaʊ.ər / EYE-zən-how-ər; born David Dwight Eisenhower; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969), nicknamed Ike, was an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. During World War II, he was Supreme Commander of the ...
1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état. In late February 1948, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ), with Soviet backing, assumed undisputed control over the government of Czechoslovakia through a coup d'état. It marked the beginning of four decades of the party's rule in the country. [b]
Embassy of the United States, Prague. Relations between Czechoslovakia and the United States refer to two periods in Czechoslovakia's history. The first being the establishment of Czechoslovakia after its declaration of independence in 1918 from Austria-Hungary initiated by President Woodrow Wilson as part of his Fourteen Points following World ...
Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force ( SHAEF; / ˈʃeɪf / SHAYF) was the headquarters of the Commander of Allied forces in northwest Europe, from late 1943 until the end of World War II. US General Dwight D. Eisenhower was the commander in SHAEF throughout its existence. The position itself shares a common lineage with Supreme ...
In late November 1938, the truncated state, renamed Czecho-Slovakia (the so-called Second Republic ), was reconstituted in three autonomous units: the Czech lands (i.e. Bohemia and Moravia), Slovakia, and Ruthenia. [citation needed] On 14 March 1939, the Slovak State declared its independence under Jozef Tiso. [20]
Ukraine. The First Czechoslovak Republic ( Czech: První československá republika, Slovak: Prvá československá republika ), often colloquially referred to as the First Republic ( Czech: První republika, Slovak: Prvá republika ), was the first Czechoslovak state that existed from 1918 to 1938, a union of ethnic Czechs and Slovaks.