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| b. Czech Republic and Slovakia (Czechoslovakia) |
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(See 1945, May 9)| |
| 1945, April 5 |
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| Klement Gottwald, vice prime minister of Czechoslovakia and a leader of the Czechoslovak Communist Party, declared that the new Czechoslovak state would be based on the equality of Czechs and Slovaks. | 1 |
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| May 10 |
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| The new government moved to Prague. In a sweeping political purge, many collaborators were tried and executed. Former president Emil Hácha died in prison; Konrad Henlein committed suicide. | 2 |
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| June 6 |
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Edvard Bene , president of Czechoslovakia, declared that the German and Hungarian minorities had to be expelled from his country. | 3 |
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| June 29 |
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| Czechoslovakia ceded Ruthenia to the Soviet Union. | 4 |
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| Aug. 3 |
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| All Germans and Hungarians in Czechoslovakia were deprived of their citizenship and subesquently expelled from the country. | 5 |
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| Oct. 14 |
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| A provisional National Assembly was elected by indirect suffrage. | 6 |
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| Oct. 18 |
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| The government embarked on a far-reaching program of industrial nationalization and agricultural reform. | 7 |
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