29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat (96) 12. 3. 1938 - "Anschluss" of Austria (7) 2. 10. 1938 - Poland's annexation of Teschen area (10) 2.11.1938 - 14. 3. 1939 - Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia (26) 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR (86) 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2 (139) 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State (21) 17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities (17) 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland (6) 1940 - The Battle of France (34) 13. 8. – 31. 10. 1940 - The Battle of Britain (21) 25. 11. 1940 - The Patria disaster (7) 1940 - 1941 - Deportations of Poles to USSR (1) 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps (66) 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR (84) 21. 10 - 10. 12. 1941 - The Tobruk campaign (25) 4. 12. 1941 - The first transport to the Theresienstadt (8) 1941, August 27-28 - Mass murder of Jews in Kamianets Podolskyi (1) 10. 6. 1942 – Destruction of Lidice (8) 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich (25) 3.9.1942 - 2.2.1943 Battle of Stalingrad (1) 8. 3. 1943 - The battle of Sokolovo (17) 13. 7. 1943 - Destroying of Český Malín (14) 3. - 6. 11. 1943 - Battle of Kiev (29) 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising (41) 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass (134) 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia (254) 20. 6. - 29. 8. 1944 - Operation Bagration (7) 1. – 2. 1. 1944 - Battle of Biela Cerkov (24) 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk (48) 17. 1. - 18. 5. 1944 - The Battle of Monte Cassino (1) 6. 6. 1944 - Overlord (7) 23 February 1944 - Deportation of Chechens and Ingushs to Centrall Asia Soviet Republics (4) 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising (47) 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps (57) 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia (62) 29. 6. 1945 – Withdrawal from the Carpatho-Russia in favour of the USSR (15) 
27. 1. 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camp Auschwitz (0) 1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from Poland (0) 1945 - 1946 Resettlement of Poles in the "Regained lands" (0) 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR (48) 26. 5. 1946 – The last “free” parliamentary election in Czechoslovakia (9) 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR (148) 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age (149) 1948 – Action "DI" (Confidential: Israel) (6) 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering (4) 8. 9. 1948 – Funeral of President Edvard Beneš (5) 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation (25) 24. 2. 1949 – Formation of the Czechoslovak Union of Youth (5) 21. 6. 1949 – Execution of General Heliodor Píka (10) 11. 12. 1949 – The “Čihošť Miracle” (2) 13. – 14. 4. 1950 – "Action K" – forceful concentration of Czech monks (8) 31. 5. – 8. 6. 1950 – Milada Horáková’s trial (10) 8. - 11. 10. 1950 - Trial against F.A.Stříteský, head of the piarist dormitory in Litomyšl (4) 14. 3. 1953 – Klement Gottwald’s death (3) 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval (10) 22. – 29. 4. 1956 – 2nd Congress of Czech Writers (1) 23. 10. - 11. 11. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 (1) 5 January 1957 - Reestablishment of Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Chechen return from deportation (2) 27. – 29. 6. 1967 - The 4th Congress of Czech Writers (1) 31. 10. 1967 – Spontaneous student demonstration in Prague (1) 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring (40) 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops (70) 5. 4. 1968 – Formation of KAN (Club of Active Non-partisans) (3) 22. 8. 1968 – Extraordinary congress (the “Vysočany Congress”) of KSČ (1) 19. – 21. 11. 1968 – The three-day student strike and other displays of civil r (3) 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation (7) 18. - 21. 8. 1969 – mass demonstrations against Soviet occupation (4) 21. – 28.3.1969 – Disorders related to the celebration of Czech hockey team’s (2) 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period (3)
