Editing Czechoslovakia (section)

===After 1989===
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[[File:Foundation of the Visegrád Group.tiff|thumb|The [[Visegrád Group]] signing ceremony in February 1991]]

In 1989, the [[Velvet Revolution]] restored democracy.<ref name="czechuniversities.com"/> This occurred around the same time as the fall of communism in Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, East Germany and Poland.

The word "socialist" was removed from the country's full name on 29&nbsp;March 1990 and replaced by "federal".

[[Pope John Paul II]] made a [[List of pastoral visits of Pope John Paul II|papal visit]] to Czechoslovakia on 21 April 1990, hailing it as a symbolic step of reviving Christianity in the newly-formed post-communist state.

[[Czechoslovakia in the Gulf War|Czechoslovakia participated in the Gulf War]] with a small force of 200 troops under the command of the U.S.-led coalition.

In 1992, because of growing [[nationalist]] tensions in the government, Czechoslovakia was [[dissolution of Czechoslovakia|peacefully dissolved]] by parliament. On 31 December 1992, it formally separated into two independent countries, the [[Czech Republic]] and the [[Slovak Republic]].<ref name="czechuniversities.com"/>

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