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(1918–92)</a></span></li></ul></li></ul></section><section><h3>arts</h3><ul class="list-unstyled"></ul><ul class="list-unstyled"><li><strong>folk art</strong><ul class="list-unstyled"><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/art/folk-art-visual-arts/Style#ref664904" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">folk art: Content and motifs</a></span></li><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/art/folk-art-visual-arts/Slavic-area#ref664905" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">folk art: Slavic area</a></span></li></ul></li><li><strong>motion pictures</strong><ul class="list-unstyled"><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/art/history-of-the-motion-picture/India#ref508269" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">history of film: Russia, eastern Europe, and Central Asia</a></span></li></ul></li><li><strong>music</strong><ul class="list-unstyled"><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/art/vocal-music/Art-songs-in-other-Western-countries#ref395298" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">vocal music: Art songs in other Western countries</a></span></li><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/art/folk-music#ref664906" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">folk music: The concept of folk music</a></span></li></ul></li><li><strong>opera</strong><ul class="list-unstyled"><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/art/opera-music/Later-opera-in-Germany-and-Austria#ref395860" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">opera: Czechoslovakia and other eastern European countries</a></span></li></ul></li></ul></section><section><h3>communications</h3><ul class="list-unstyled"></ul><ul class="list-unstyled"><li><strong>broadcasting</strong><ul class="list-unstyled"><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/technology/broadcasting/Broadcasting-systems#ref312904" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">broadcasting: State operation</a></span></li></ul></li><li><strong>magazine publishing</strong><ul class="list-unstyled"><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/publishing/Scholarly-cultural-and-literary-magazines#ref398517" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">history of publishing: Continental Europe</a></span></li></ul></li></ul></section><section><h3>economics</h3><ul class="list-unstyled"></ul><ul class="list-unstyled"><li><strong>coins and coinage</strong><ul class="list-unstyled"><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/money/coin/Germany-and-central-Europe#ref302341" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">coin: Germany and central Europe</a></span></li></ul></li><li><strong>Council for Mutual Economic Assistance</strong><ul class="list-unstyled"><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Comecon#ref269848" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Comecon</a></span></li></ul></li><li><strong>economic planning</strong><ul class="list-unstyled"><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/money/economic-planning/The-Gorbachev-reform-agenda#ref209525" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">economic planning: Czechoslovakia</a></span></li></ul></li><li><strong>International Bank for Economic Cooperation</strong><ul class="list-unstyled"><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/International-Bank-for-Economic-Cooperation#ref176228" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">International Bank for Economic Cooperation</a></span></li></ul></li></ul></section><section><h3>history</h3><ul class="list-unstyled"></ul><section><h4>Sudetenland</h4><ul class="list-unstyled"><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Sudetenland#ref57710" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Sudetenland</a></span></li></ul><ul class="list-unstyled"><li><strong>Munich Agreement</strong><ul class="list-unstyled"><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/event/Munich-Agreement#ref117382" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Munich Agreement</a></span></li><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/20th-century-international-relations-2085155/The-taking-of-Czechoslovakia#ref304299" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">20th-century international relations: The taking of Czechoslovakia</a></span></li></ul></li></ul></section><ul class="list-unstyled"><li><strong>Bohemia</strong><ul class="list-unstyled"><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Bohemia#ref61831" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Bohemia</a></span></li></ul></li><li><strong>Brezhnev</strong><ul class="list-unstyled"><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leonid-Ilich-Brezhnev#ref18194" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Leonid Brezhnev</a></span></li><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Soviet-Union/The-Brezhnev-era#ref306248" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Soviet Union: Foreign policy</a></span></li></ul></li><li><strong>Churchill</strong><ul class="list-unstyled"><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Winston-Churchill/During-World-War-I#ref359014" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Winston Churchill: Exclusion from office, 1929–39</a></span></li></ul></li><li><strong>Communist takeover</strong><ul class="list-unstyled"><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/history-of-Europe/A-climate-of-fear#ref311470" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">history of Europe: A climate of fear</a></span></li></ul></li><li><strong>Czech flag</strong><ul class="list-unstyled"><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/flag-of-the-Czech-Republic#ref712678" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">flag of the Czech Republic</a></span></li></ul></li><li><strong>Czechoslovak region</strong><ul class="list-unstyled"><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Czechoslovak-history#ref584397" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Czechoslovak history</a></span></li></ul></li><li><strong>Europe</strong><ul class="list-unstyled"><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/history-of-Europe/The-Great-War-and-its-aftermath#ref311356" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">history of Europe: The mood of Versailles</a></span></li></ul></li><li><strong>Germany</strong><ul class="list-unstyled"><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/protectorate-international-relations#ref138581" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">protectorate</a></span></li><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Germany/Foreign-policy#ref297690" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Germany: Foreign policy</a></span></li></ul></li><li><strong>Gorbachev</strong><ul class="list-unstyled"><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mikhail-Gorbachev#ref277101" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Mikhail Gorbachev: General secretary of the CPSU: perestroika to the fall of the Soviet Union</a></span></li></ul></li><li><strong>Hitler</strong><ul class="list-unstyled"><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Third-Reich/Peaceful-annexations#ref1256218" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Third Reich: Peaceful annexations</a></span></li><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adolf-Hitler/Dictator-1933-39#ref63936" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Adolf Hitler: Dictator, 1933–39</a></span></li></ul></li><li><strong>Hungary</strong><ul class="list-unstyled"><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Hungary/World-War-I#ref411332" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Hungary: The Treaty of Trianon</a></span></li><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Hungary/Financial-crisis-the-rise-of-right-radicalism#ref411355" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Hungary: Financial crisis: the rise of right radicalism</a></span></li></ul></li><li><strong>Košice government</strong><ul class="list-unstyled"><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kosice-government#ref245690" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Košice government</a></span></li></ul></li><li><strong>liberalization</strong><ul class="list-unstyled"><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/20th-century-international-relations-2085155/1989-annus-mirabilis#ref305239" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">20th-century international relations: Liberalization and struggle in Communist countries</a></span></li><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/20th-century-international-relations-2085155/1989-annus-mirabilis#ref305256" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">20th-century international relations: Liberalization and struggle in Communist countries</a></span></li></ul></li><li><strong>Little Entente</strong><ul class="list-unstyled"><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Little-Entente#ref153579" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Little Entente</a></span></li></ul></li><li><strong>Marshall Plan</strong><ul class="list-unstyled"><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/20th-century-international-relations-2085155/The-economic-battle-with-Communism#ref304531" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">20th-century international relations: The economic battle with Communism</a></span></li></ul></li><li><strong>Moravia</strong><ul class="list-unstyled"><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Moravia#ref223501" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Moravia</a></span></li></ul></li><li><strong>Poland</strong><ul class="list-unstyled"><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Poland/Poland-in-the-20th-century#ref397001" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Poland: From the Treaty of Versailles to the Treaty of Riga</a></span></li></ul></li><li><strong>postwar boundary changes</strong><ul class="list-unstyled"><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/20th-century-international-relations-2085155/The-Cold-War-in-Europe#ref304503" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">20th-century international relations: Peace treaties and territorial agreements</a></span></li></ul></li><li><strong>postwar political development</strong><ul class="list-unstyled"><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/communism/Stalinism#ref990742" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">communism: Stalinism</a></span></li></ul></li><li><strong>Prague Spring</strong><ul class="list-unstyled"><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/20th-century-international-relations-2085155/Nixon-Kissinger-and-the-detente-experiment#ref304932" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">20th-century international relations: Détente as realism</a></span></li><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/event/Prague-Spring#ref1068849" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Prague Spring</a></span></li></ul></li><li><strong>Russian invasion of 1968</strong><ul class="list-unstyled"><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/event/Brezhnev-Doctrine#ref1254344" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Brezhnev Doctrine</a></span></li></ul></li><li><strong>Rusyns</strong><ul class="list-unstyled"><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Rusyn-people#ref73326" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Rusyn: Rusyns before World War II</a></span></li></ul></li><li><strong>Slovakian flag</strong><ul class="list-unstyled"><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/flag-of-Slovakia#ref717320" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">flag of Slovakia</a></span></li></ul></li><li><strong>Teschen</strong><ul class="list-unstyled"><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Teschen#ref185009" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Teschen</a></span></li><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/20th-century-international-relations-2085155/Central-Europe-and-the-Middle-East#ref304114" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">20th-century international relations: The reorganization of central Europe</a></span></li></ul></li><li><strong>Thun und Hohenstein</strong><ul class="list-unstyled"><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leo-Graf-von-Thun-und-Hohenstein#ref55400" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Leo, count von Thun und Hohenstein</a></span></li></ul></li><li><strong>Transcarpathia</strong><ul class="list-unstyled"><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Ukraine/Ukraine-in-the-interwar-period#ref404553" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Ukraine: Ukraine in the interwar period</a></span></li><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Ukraine/Transcarpathia-in-Czechoslovakia#ref404600" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Ukraine: Transcarpathia in Czechoslovakia</a></span></li></ul></li><li><strong>United Kingdom</strong><ul class="list-unstyled"><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/United-Kingdom/Baldwin-and-the-abdication-crisis#ref483641" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">United Kingdom: Foreign policy and appeasement</a></span></li></ul></li><li><strong>Warsaw Pact</strong><ul class="list-unstyled"><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/event/Warsaw-Pact#ref241263" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Warsaw Pact</a></span></li></ul></li><li><strong>World War I</strong><ul class="list-unstyled"><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/20th-century-international-relations-2085155/Last-battles-and-armistice#ref304051" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">20th-century international relations: Russia’s withdrawal from the war</a></span></li></ul></li><li><strong>World War II</strong><ul class="list-unstyled"><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/20th-century-international-relations-2085155/The-taking-of-Czechoslovakia#ref304293" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">20th-century international relations: The taking of Czechoslovakia</a></span></li></ul></li></ul></section><section><h3>military affairs</h3><ul class="list-unstyled"></ul><ul class="list-unstyled"><li><strong>fortifications</strong><ul class="list-unstyled"><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/technology/fortification/Linear-fortifications-of-World-War-II#ref521260" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">fortification: Other fort series</a></span></li></ul></li></ul></section><section><h3>physical geography</h3><ul class="list-unstyled"></ul><ul class="list-unstyled"><li><strong>Pleistocene deposits</strong><ul class="list-unstyled"><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/science/Pleistocene-Epoch/Marine-oxygen-isotope-record#ref586163" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Pleistocene Epoch: Loess-paleosol records</a></span></li></ul></li></ul></section><section><h3>population and demography</h3><ul class="list-unstyled"></ul><ul class="list-unstyled"><li><strong>ethnic diversities</strong><ul class="list-unstyled"><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Europe/People#ref309454" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Europe: Culture groups</a></span></li></ul></li></ul></section><section><h3>religion</h3><ul class="list-unstyled"></ul><section><h4>Protestantism</h4><ul class="list-unstyled"><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Protestantism/Protestantism-since-the-early-20th-century#ref469889" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Protestantism: Mainstream Protestantism</a></span></li></ul><ul class="list-unstyled"><li><strong>Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren</strong><ul class="list-unstyled"><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Evangelical-Church-of-Czech-Brethren#ref69641" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren</a></span></li></ul></li><li><strong>Reformed churches</strong><ul class="list-unstyled"><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Presbyterian-churches#ref466418" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Reformed and Presbyterian churches: Reformed churches in eastern Europe</a></span></li></ul></li></ul></section><ul class="list-unstyled"><li><strong>Orthodox Church of Czechoslovakia</strong><ul class="list-unstyled"><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Orthodox-Church-of-Czechoslovakia#ref119794" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Orthodox Church of Czechoslovakia</a></span></li></ul></li></ul></section><section><h3>sports and recreation</h3><ul class="list-unstyled"></ul><ul class="list-unstyled"><li><strong>tennis</strong><ul class="list-unstyled"><li> <span class="index-xref">In <a href="https://www.britannica.com/sports/tennis/Professional-and-open-tennis#ref403261" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">tennis: The open era</a></span></li></ul></li></ul></section></div> </div> <div id="contributors" class="pt-20 mt-30 border-top"> <div id="contributors-Czechoslovakia"> <h2 class="mb-20">Article Contributors</h2> <h3 class="topic-contributors-subtitle h4">Primary Contributors</h3> <ul class="list-unstyled mt-10 mb-20 contributor-PRIMARY"> <li> <a href="/editor/The-Editors-of-Encyclopaedia-Britannica/4419">The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica</a> </li> </ul> <h3 class="topic-contributors-subtitle h4">Other Encyclopedia Britannica Contributors</h3> <ul class="list-unstyled mt-10 mb-20 contributor-NON_PRIMARY_EB"> <li> <a href="/editor/Adam-Augustyn/6394">Adam Augustyn</a> </li> <li> <a href="/editor/Patricia-Bauer/3520770">Patricia Bauer</a> </li> <li> <a href="/editor/Heather-Campbell/6736">Heather Campbell</a> </li> <li> <a href="/editor/Gloria-Lotha/7666594">Gloria Lotha</a> </li> <li> <a href="/editor/Michael-Ray/6392">Michael Ray</a> </li> <li> <a href="/editor/Emily-Rodriguez/9852325">Emily Rodriguez</a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="history" class="pt-20 border-top"> <div id="history-Czechoslovakia"> <h2 class="mb-20">Article History</h2> <div class="mw-100 overflow-scroll"> <table class="article-history table"> <thead> <tr> <th class="topic-history-type">Type</th> <th class="topic-history-description">Description</th> <th class="topic-history-contributor">Contributor</th> <th class="topic-history-date">Date</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td class="history-type"> <em class="material-icons " data-icon="link"></em> </td> <td> Modified link of Web site: The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe - Czechoslovakia.</td> <td class="history-contributor"> <ul class="list-unstyled"> <li data-type="contributor"> <a href="/editor/Gloria-Lotha/7666594">Gloria Lotha</a></li> </ul> </td> <td data-type="date" class="text-nowrap"> Oct 25, 2024</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="history-type"> <em class="material-icons " data-icon="link"></em> </td> <td> Add new Web site: United States Department of State - Office of the Historian - A Guide to the United States History of Recognition, Diplomatic, and Consular Relations, by Country, since 1776: Czechoslovakia.</td> <td class="history-contributor"> <ul class="list-unstyled"> <li data-type="contributor"> <a href="/editor/Gloria-Lotha/7666594">Gloria Lotha</a></li> </ul> </td> <td data-type="date" class="text-nowrap"> Jun 27, 2024</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="history-type"> <em class="material-icons " data-icon="link"></em> </td> <td> Add new Web site: 1914-1918-Online - Crumbling of Empires and Emerging States: Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia as (Multi)national Countries.</td> <td class="history-contributor"> <ul class="list-unstyled"> <li data-type="contributor"> <a href="/editor/Gloria-Lotha/7666594">Gloria Lotha</a></li> </ul> </td> <td data-type="date" class="text-nowrap"> Mar 04, 2024</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="history-type"> <em class="material-icons " data-icon="edit"></em> </td> <td> Link added.</td> <td class="history-contributor"> <ul class="list-unstyled"> <li data-type="contributor"> <a href="/editor/The-Editors-of-Encyclopaedia-Britannica/4419">The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica</a></li> </ul> </td> <td data-type="date" class="text-nowrap"> Nov 10, 2023</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="history-type"> <em class="material-icons " data-icon="link"></em> </td> <td> Add new Web site: Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine - Czechoslovakia.</td> <td class="history-contributor"> <ul class="list-unstyled"> <li data-type="contributor"> <a href="/editor/Gloria-Lotha/7666594">Gloria Lotha</a></li> </ul> </td> <td data-type="date" class="text-nowrap"> Aug 16, 2023</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="history-type"> <em class="material-icons " data-icon="link"></em> </td> <td> Add new Web site: University of Central Arkansas - Political Science - Czechoslovakia (1918-1992).</td> <td class="history-contributor"> <ul class="list-unstyled"> <li data-type="contributor"> <a href="/editor/Gloria-Lotha/7666594">Gloria Lotha</a></li> </ul> </td> <td data-type="date" class="text-nowrap"> Jul 06, 2023</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="history-type"> <em class="material-icons " data-icon="link"></em> </td> <td> Add new Web site: History Today - Who Lost Czechoslovakia?</td> <td class="history-contributor"> <ul class="list-unstyled"> <li data-type="contributor"> <a href="/editor/Gloria-Lotha/7666594">Gloria Lotha</a></li> </ul> </td> <td data-type="date" class="text-nowrap"> May 22, 2023</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="history-type"> <em class="material-icons " data-icon="link"></em> </td> <td> Add new Web site: GlobalSecurity.org - Czechoslovakia in World War II.</td> <td class="history-contributor"> <ul class="list-unstyled"> <li data-type="contributor"> <a href="/editor/Emily-Rodriguez/9852325">Emily Rodriguez</a></li> </ul> </td> <td data-type="date" class="text-nowrap"> Jan 05, 2023</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="history-type"> <em class="material-icons " data-icon="edit"></em> </td> <td> Added cross-references.</td> <td class="history-contributor"> <ul class="list-unstyled"> <li data-type="contributor"> <a href="/editor/Patricia-Bauer/3520770">Patricia Bauer</a></li> </ul> </td> <td data-type="date" class="text-nowrap"> May 12, 2020</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="history-type"> <em class="material-icons " data-icon="edit"></em> </td> <td> Corrected display issue.</td> <td class="history-contributor"> <ul class="list-unstyled"> <li data-type="contributor"> <a href="/editor/Adam-Augustyn/6394">Adam Augustyn</a></li> </ul> </td> <td data-type="date" class="text-nowrap"> Sep 26, 2018</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="history-type"> <em class="material-icons " data-icon="link"></em> </td> <td> Add new Web site: Jewish Virtual Library - Czechoslovakia.</td> <td class="history-contributor"> <ul class="list-unstyled"> <li data-type="contributor"> <a href="/editor/Gloria-Lotha/7666594">Gloria Lotha</a></li> </ul> </td> <td data-type="date" class="text-nowrap"> Jul 27, 2018</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="history-type"> <em class="material-icons " data-icon="photo"></em> </td> <td> Media added.</td> <td class="history-contributor"> <ul class="list-unstyled"> <li data-type="contributor"> <a href="/editor/Michael-Ray/6392">Michael Ray</a></li> </ul> </td> <td data-type="date" class="text-nowrap"> Jan 20, 2016</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="history-type"> <em class="material-icons " data-icon="link"></em> </td> <td> Add new Web site: Jewish Virtual Library - Czechoslovakia.</td> <td class="history-contributor"> <ul class="list-unstyled"> <li data-type="contributor"> <a href="/editor/Gloria-Lotha/7666594">Gloria Lotha</a></li> </ul> </td> <td data-type="date" class="text-nowrap"> Jan 29, 2013</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="history-type"> <em class="material-icons " data-icon="link"></em> </td> <td> Add new Web site: The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe - Czechoslovakia.</td> <td class="history-contributor"> <ul class="list-unstyled"> <li data-type="contributor"> <a href="/editor/Gloria-Lotha/7666594">Gloria Lotha</a></li> </ul> </td> <td data-type="date" class="text-nowrap"> Jan 29, 2013</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="history-type"> <em class="material-icons " data-icon="link"></em> </td> <td> Add new Web site: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - Holocaust Encyclopedia - Czechoslovakia.</td> <td class="history-contributor"> <ul class="list-unstyled"> <li data-type="contributor"> <a href="/editor/Gloria-Lotha/7666594">Gloria Lotha</a></li> </ul> </td> <td data-type="date" class="text-nowrap"> Jan 29, 2013</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="history-type"> <em class="material-icons " data-icon="photo"></em> </td> <td> Added map of Czechoslovakia.</td> <td class="history-contributor"> <ul class="list-unstyled"> <li data-type="contributor"> <a href="/editor/Heather-Campbell/6736">Heather Campbell</a></li> </ul> </td> <td data-type="date" class="text-nowrap"> Jul 22, 2010</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="history-type"> <em class="material-icons " data-icon="link"></em> </td> <td> Added new Web site: History Learning Site - The Czech Crisis of 1938.</td> <td class="history-contributor"> <ul class="list-unstyled"> <li data-type="contributor"> <a href="/editor/Gloria-Lotha/7666594">Gloria Lotha</a></li> </ul> </td> <td data-type="date" class="text-nowrap"> Jan 29, 2009</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="history-type"> <em class="material-icons " data-icon="edit"></em> </td> <td> <span class="topic-history-diff-link link-blue" data-diff="/62/28462-004">Created separate short article on Czechoslovakia.</span></td> <td class="history-contributor"> <ul class="list-unstyled"> <li data-type="contributor"> <a href="/editor/Heather-Campbell/6736">Heather Campbell</a></li> </ul> </td> <td data-type="date" class="text-nowrap"> Nov 04, 2008</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="history-type"> <em class="material-icons " data-icon="link"></em> </td> <td> Added new Web site: CRW Flags - Flag of Czechoslovakia.</td> <td class="history-contributor"> <ul class="list-unstyled"> <li data-type="contributor"> <a href="/editor/Gloria-Lotha/7666594">Gloria Lotha</a></li> </ul> </td> <td data-type="date" class="text-nowrap"> Oct 18, 2007</td> </tr> <tr> <td 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