Second Czechoslovak Republic

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Czecho-Slovak Republic Česko-Slovenská republika
1938–1939
Flag Coat of arms
Motto: Pravda vítězí / Pravda víťazí "Truth prevails"
Anthem:  Kde domov můj (Czech) Where my home is "Nad Tatrou sa blýska" (English: "Lightning Over the Tatras")
Czechoslovak Republic at the beginning of 1939
Status	Rump state
Capital	Prague
Common languages	Czechoslovak (Czech and Slovak)
Demonym(s)	Czechoslovakian
Government	Unitary parliamentary republic under an authoritarian dictatorship
President
• 1938–1939	Emil Hácha
Prime Minister
• 1938	Jan Syrový
• 1938–1939	Rudolf Beran
Legislature	National Assembly
• Upper house	Senate
• Lower house	Chamber of Deputies
Historical era	Interwar period
• Munich Agreement	30 September 1938
• Slovak State declared	14 March 1939
• German occupation	15 March 1939
Currency	Czechoslovak koruna
Preceded by Succeeded by First Czechoslovak Republic Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia Slovak Republic Carpatho-Ukraine Provisional Government of Czechoslovakia
Today part of	Czech Republic Slovakia Ukraine

The Second Czechoslovak Republic (Czech and Slovak: Druhá Česko-Slovenská republika), officially the Czecho-Slovak Republic (Czech and Slovak: Česko-Slovenská republika), existed for 169 days, between 30 September 1938 and 15 March 1939. It was composed of Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia and the autonomous regions of Slovakia and Subcarpathian Rus', the latter being renamed Carpathian Ukraine on 30 December 1938.^[1]

The Second Republic was the result of the events following the Munich Agreement, where Czechoslovakia was forced to cede the German-populated Sudetenland region to Germany on 1 October 1938. After the Munich Agreement and the German government made clear to foreign diplomats that Czechoslovakia was now a German client state, the Czechoslovak government attempted to curry favour with Germany by banning the country's Communist Party, suspending all Jewish teachers in German educational institutes in Czechoslovakia, and enacted a law to allow the state to take over Jewish companies.^[2] In addition, the government allowed the country's banks to effectively come under German–Czechoslovak control.^[2] On 2 November, by the First Vienna Award, the southern parts of Slovakia and Subcarpathian Ruthenia were ceded to Hungary.

The Second Republic was dissolved when Germany invaded it on 15 March 1939, and annexed the Czech region into the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. On the same day as the German occupation, the President of Czechoslovakia, Emil Hácha was appointed by the German government as the State President of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia which he held throughout the war.