Czech history
1930s
↑ 1918 – T.G. Masaryk – 1st president of Czechoslovakia
← 1939 – Jan Opletal was killed
1933 – 1945 Adolf Hitler
German dictator ↓
↑ 1938 - 1945 - Sudettenland
1935 – 1948 Edvard Beneš 2nd president →
1940s
REINHARD HEYDRICH - ASSASSINATION
HEYDRICHIADE – BURNING OF LIDICE AND LEŽÁKY
↑ Lidice
Ležáky ↓
On 12 December 1943 the Czecho–Slovak–Soviet Treaty
The Czechoslovakian representation led into new international alliances after the Munich isolation
ONLY THE RED ARMY COULD LIBERATE PRAGUE
E. BENEŠ RESIGNED AND DIED IN SEPTEMBER
1950s
EMIL ZÁTOPEK Winner of the 1952 Olympic Games in
running
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
POST-WAR RECONSTRUCTION OF THE COUNTRY - BUILDING YOUTH
POLITICAL TRIALS 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.
Rudolf Slánský Dr. Milada Horáková
Gustav Husák
1960s
GOLDEN AGE OF CZECH CULTURE
OTTO WICHTERLE -> INVENTOR OF CONTACT LENSES
ANTONÍN NOVOTNÝ 1967 – removed from his position of the
President He became the most powerful man in the state
“ THE PRAGUE SPRING“ A period of political liberation in Czechoslovakia The first secretary KSČ - Dubček introduced
reforms known as “socialism with a human face“
1968 Soviet union didn‘t like these reforms
and Dubček was removed from the office President Antonín Novotný was replaced
by General Ludvík Svoboda
1970s
MILOŠ FORMAN - DIRECTOR
Oscar 1975 -> One flew over the Cuckoo´s nest
1975 – 1989 president Gustav Husák
1977 – Václav Havel
VLADIMÍR REMEK – THE FIRST CZECH COSMONAUT
1980s
JAROSLAV SEIFERT – WEARER OF NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE
ON Friday 17th November 1989 a mass student demonstration to commemorate international students day and the 50th anniversary of the death of Jan Opletal took place
POLICEMEN BLOCKED ALL ESCAPE ROUTES AND BEAT THE
STUDENTS
ON DECEMBER 29TH 1989, THE TRANSFORMED NATIONAL
ASSEMBLY ELECTED VÁCLAV HAVEL AS PRESIDENT
1990s
DISINTEGRATION OF THE CZECHOSLOVAK FEDERATIVE REPUBLIC AND THE
ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC
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
WINNERS OF THE HOCKEY WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP -> NAGANO
2002
ENTRY INTO NATO
2003
28.2 2003 THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC VÁCLAV HAVEL WAS SUCCEEDED BY VÁCLAV KLAUS
2004
ON THE 1 MAY 2004 THE CZECH REPUBLIC BECAME A MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
Some important sportsmen from 2000
Kateřina Neumannová ↓
Jan Železný →
← Jaromír
Jágr
THE ENDAND
THANK YOU FOR YOUR
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