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| 1928, Dec |
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| The arrest and conviction of Voitech Tuka, a Slovak deputy accused of irredentist agitation in favor of Hungary, caused much ill feeling in Slovakia. | 1 |
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| 1929 |
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| Klement Gottwald became head of the Czechoslovak Communist Party and began to Bolshevize the party. | 2 |
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| 1933, Feb. 14–16 |
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| The powers of the Little Entente, meeting at Geneva, concluded a pact of organization, providing for a standing council and a permanent secretariat, as well as for coordination of policies and for economic collaboration. This step toward greater solidarity was provoked partly by revival of irredentist agitation in Hungary, in part by the advent of Hitler's National Socialist government in Germany. In the course of the year Nazi agitation spread rapidly among the more than 3 million Germans living along the frontiers of the republic. These areas, largely industrial, were particularly hard hit by the depression, so that economic grievances were added to the earlier cultural and political ones. | 3 |
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| Oct. 4 |
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| The Sudeten National Socialist Party dissolved itself, on the eve of a government order prohibiting it. Led by Konrad Henlein, the party soon emerged again as the Sudetendeutsche Partei, Nazi in its program but officially not directed at the disruption of the state. | 4 |
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