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b. Czech Republic and Slovakia (Czechoslovakia)
1945, April 5
Klement Gottwald, vice prime minister of Czechoslovakia and a leader of the Czechoslovak Communist Party, declared that the new Czechoslovak state would be based on the equality of Czechs and Slovaks.	1
May 10
The new government moved to Prague. In a sweeping political purge, many collaborators were tried and executed. Former president Emil Hácha died in prison; Konrad Henlein committed suicide.	2
June 6
Edvard Bene, president of Czechoslovakia, declared that the German and Hungarian minorities had to be expelled from his country.	3
June 29
Czechoslovakia ceded Ruthenia to the Soviet Union.	4
Aug. 3
All Germans and Hungarians in Czechoslovakia were deprived of their citizenship and subesquently expelled from the country.	5
Oct. 14
A provisional National Assembly was elected by indirect suffrage.	6
Oct. 18
The government embarked on a far-reaching program of industrial nationalization and agricultural reform.	7

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