Editing Slovakia (section)

=== From Fascism to Communism (1945–1948) ===
{{Main|Third Czechoslovak Republic|1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état}}
{{See also|Soviet annexation of Transcarpathia}}

As a result of the [[Yalta Conference]] in February 1945, Czechoslovakia came under the influence of the [[Soviet Union]].

After World War&nbsp;II, Czechoslovakia was reconstituted and [[Jozef Tiso]] was executed in 1947 for collaboration with the Nazis. More than [[Hungarians in Slovakia#Population exchanges|80,000 Hungarians]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.psa.ac.uk/journals/pdf/5/2003/Erika%20Harris.pdf |title=Management of the Hungarian Issue in Slovak Politics |access-date=16 October 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090325004909/http://www.psa.ac.uk/journals/pdf/5/2003/Erika%20Harris.pdf |archive-date=25 March 2009}}</ref> and 32,000 Germans<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.saske.sk/cas/4-98/olejnik.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080620073924/http://www.saske.sk/cas/4-98/olejnik.html |archive-date=20 June 2008 |trans-title=German minority in Slovakia after 1918 |title=Nemecká menšina na Slovensku po roku 1918 |language=sk |date=20 June 2008 |access-date=16 October 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref> were forced to leave Slovakia, in a series of [[Expulsion of Germans after World War II|population transfers]] initiated by the Allies at the [[Potsdam Conference]].<ref name="rock">{{cite book|last=Rock|first=David|author2=Stefan Wolff |title=Coming home to Germany? The integration of ethnic Germans from central and eastern Europe in the Federal Republic|publisher=Berghahn|year=2002|location=New York; Oxford}}</ref> Out of about 130,000 [[Carpathian Germans]] in Slovakia in 1938, by 1947 only some 20,000 remained.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://mertsahinoglu.com/research/carpathian-german-history/ |title=Dr. Thomas Reimer, Carpathian Germans history |publisher=Mertsahinoglu.com |access-date=16 October 2010 |archive-date=5 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230405214825/https://mertsahinoglu.com/research/carpathian-german-history/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>{{failed verification|date=June 2014}}

In February 1948, the [[Communist Party of Czechoslovakia]], with Soviet backing, assumed undisputed control over the government of [[Czechoslovakia]] through a [[1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état|coup d'état]] and Czechoslovakia came under direct occupation of the Soviet Union and its [[Warsaw Pact]]. It became a [[puppet state]] of the Soviet Union, but it was never part of the Soviet Union and remained independent to a certain degree.