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| 1939 March 15 |
| | | Hitler's armies smash their way into Czechoslovakia and enter Prague, against all his previous promises | |
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| 1942 May 27 |
| | | Reinhard Heydrich is fatally wounded by Free Czech agents parachuted in from Britain | |
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| 1945 May 5 |
| | | The citizens of Prague, and other cities in Czechoslovakia, rise against the Germans as the Red Army approaches from the east | |
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| 1945 June 21 |
| | | The Sudetenland is restored to Czechoslovakia, seven years after its transfer to Germany under the Munich Agreement | |
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| 1946 |
| | | The Communists become the largest party in Czechoslovakia, winning 38% of the vote in a free election | |
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| 1948 |
| | | An armed coup, led by Klement Gottwald, imposes single-party Communist rule in Czechoslovakia | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Alexander Dubcek becomes first secretary of the Czechoslovak Communist party, following pressure for reform from party intellectuals | |
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| 1968 |
| | | New Czech leader Alexander Dubcek facilitates the Prague Spring, aiming in his words to provide 'socialism with a human face' | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Soviet and Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia to end the Prague Spring | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Reformist Czech leader Alexander Dubcek is arrested and flown to Moscow | |
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