Czechoslovakia · event 3 of 12

15 March 1939

The occupation. German troops enter Prague and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia is declared. Universities are closed after student protests in November; nine students are executed and over a thousand sent to camps.

The Czechoslovakia era

  1. 28 October 1918
  2. 30 September 1938
  3. 15 March 1939
  4. 1941
  5. 27 May 1942
  6. 5 May 1945
  7. 25 February 1948
  8. 1952
  9. 1 May 1955
  10. 21 August 1968
  11. 16 January 1969
  12. 1 January 1977

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