Czechoslovak history - National Awakening, Constitutionalism

Czechoslovak history

Table of Contents

Introduction
The historical regions to 1918
- Origins and early history
  - Bohemia
  - Moravia
  - Slovakia
- The Přemyslid rulers of Bohemia (895–1306)
- The late Middle Ages (1306–1526)
  - The Luxembourg dynasty
  - The Hussite wars
  - The Hussite preponderance
  - The Jagiellonian kings
- Habsburg rule (1526–1918)
  - Religious tensions in Bohemia
  - The Counter-Reformation and Protestant rebellion
  - Re-Catholicization and absolutist rule
  - National awakening and the rise of constitutionalism
  - National turmoil under the dual monarchy
  - Struggle for independence
Czechoslovakia (1918–92)
- Czechoslovakia to 1945
  - The establishment of the republic
  - The crisis of German nationalism
  - The breakup of the republic
  - World War II
- Communist Czechoslovakia
  - The provisional regime
  - Stalinism in Czechoslovakia
  - The growing reform movement
  - The Prague Spring of 1968
  - “Normalization” and political dissidence
  - Velvet Revolution and Velvet Divorce

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