Czech History
• 500 - 1306: The Great Moravian
Empire and the
Přemyslid Dynasty
• 1310
- 1378: John of Luxembourg and Charles IV
• 1415
- 1526: The Hussite Era and George of Poděbrady
• 1526
- 1790: The Habsburg Dynasty to Joseph II
• 1790
- 1914: National Revival to World War I
• 1918
- 1945: The First Republic and World War II
• 1945
- 1989: The Communist Era
• 1989
- present: Velvet Revolution and Beyond
The Russian perestroika that was
introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev in the mid-1980s marked
the last years of communism in Czechoslovakia. The late
1980s are characterized by
public demonstrations. A week
after the fall
of the Berlin
Wall in November 1989, the Velvet
Revolution brought an
end to communism. Václav Havel, former dissident, was
elected president during the country's first democratic
elections in January 1990.
On January 1, 1993, Czechoslovakia peacefully
split into two independent countries, Czech
Republic and
Slovakia, and Havel was elected the first president
of the Czech Republic.
The Czech Republic joined NATO in 1999 and
was approved to become a
member of
the
European Union in 2002. On May
1, 2004 the Czech Republic joined the EU along with 10
other
nations.
- Czechoslovakia:
The Velvet Revolution and Beyond
- The
Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw,
Budapest, Berlin and Prague
- Successful
Transformations: The Creation of Market Economies in Eastern
Germany and the Czech Republic (Studies of Communism in Transition
Series)
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