30 September 1938Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Great Britain and France accept the ‘Munich Agreement’, which means the loss of the Czechoslovak borderland (the so-called Sudetenland) and the demise of the First Czechoslovak Republic.
1 October 1938The so-called Second Czechoslovak Republic is created on the territory of Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, Slovakia and Carpathian Ruthenia without the territories annexed to Germany, Poland and Hungary (on the basis of the so-called Munich Agreement and later the so-called Vienna Arbitration).
1939
14 March 1939The independent Slovak State is declared.
15 March 1939German troops occupy the remaining territory of the Czech part of Czechoslovakia, i.e. the territory of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia, which Germany and Poland have not occupied and annexed until then. The day after that, the newly occupied territories are established as ‘Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia’.
