Bohemia grew to be quite large and was a self-governing state of the Holy Roman Empire during the Middle Ages. Czechoslovakia was officially founded in October of , as one of the successor states of Austro-Hungarian Empire at the end of World War I and as part of the Treaty of St. It consisted of the present day territories of Bohemia, Moravia, Slovakia and Carpathian Ruthenia and its territory included some of the most industrialized regions of the former Austria-Hungary.
The roots of Czech nationalism go back to the 19th century, when philologists and educators, influenced by Romanticism, promoted the Czech language and pride in the Czech people. During World War I small numbers of Czechs, the Czechoslovak Legions, fought with the Allies in France and Italy, while large numbers deserted to Russia, in exchange for their support for the independence of Czechoslovakia from the Austrian Empire.
Bohemia and Moravia, under Austrian rule, were Czech-speaking industrial centres, while Slovakia, which was part of Hungary, was an undeveloped agrarian region. Conditions were much better for the development of a mass national movement in the Czech lands than in Slovakia.
Nevertheless, the two regions united and created a new nation. Keep in mind, also that Moravia was in the center of the two. Czechs Bohemians , Moravians and Slovaks all speak a similar Slavic language but have a very different dialect. The girls above are wearing Czechoslovakian national folk dress. It included lots of embroidery and reds, blues and golds. Even the ribbons of her cap are richly embroidered. The women of Czechoslovakia loved to wear their national finery and were proud of their handwork.
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Czechoslovakia broke off the collapsing Habsburg Monarchy to create a union of provinces with no previous historic connections: Bohemia, Moravia, Czech-speaking Silesia, Slovakia and Subcarpathian Ruthenia.
Despite this diversity, it soon built an image of a successful democracy, which was economically sustainable and catered for minorities that had shared the geopolitical space for centuries. Such was the image. The reality of the cohabitation was rather different. They composed the so-called Washington Declaration, a proclamation of independence from Austria Hungary, which was published on 18 October in Paris.
The idea of a republic, however, was only one of the options discussed during WWI, alongside remaining an autonomous part of Austria turned into a federation; establishment of a kingdom with a potential ruler from Russia, installment of a centralized dictatorship backed by the military, or becoming a part of a new pan-Slavic superstate.
The Sudetenland, in northwestern Bohemia and Moravia, was primarily German in population and had been included in the Czechoslovakian borders in due to the Treaty of Saint-Germain. The Sudeten Germans believed they were treated unfairly by the Czechoslovakian government, and appealed to Adolf Hitler to help them.
The issue gained attention on the international stage and culminated at the Munich Conference of , where world leaders allowed Hitler and the Third Reich to annex the Sudetenland in exchange for the promise not to invade the remainder of Czechoslovakia. Hitler and his troops marched into the Sudetenland on October 10, , and shortly thereafter invaded the remainder of Czechoslovakia.
They would then invade Poland in early , leading to the Second World War. Soviet forces moving toward Berlin from the East liberated Czechoslovakia from the Third Reich in After a series of conferences, the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union secured the German surrender and began planning a post-war world.
Unfortunately, the divisions they initiated would set the stage for the Cold War between the East and West. It became a Consulate in , but was closed in There is no record of any postwar consuls being appointed before it was permanently closed in A Commercial Agency was opened in Reichenberg Liberec in It became a Consulate in , was closed in , and did not reopen after World War I.
Richard Crane was appointed U. Minister to Czechoslovakia on April 23, He presented his credentials on June 11, and served until December 5, Minister Bedrich Stepanek presented his credentials on January 5, Wilbur J.
The United States did not recognize the establishment of a German protectorate over Bohemia and Moravia, or the establishment of the state of Slovakia.
On September 4, , Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr. He presented his credentials on October
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