Editing History of Slovakia (section)

=====Towards autonomy of Slovakia (1938–1939)=====
[[File:Slovakia borderHungary.png|thumb|right|210px|Territorial losses in 1938–39.]]

In September 1938, France, Italy, United Kingdom and [[Nazi Germany]] concluded the [[Munich Agreement]], which forced Czechoslovakia to cede the predominantly German region known as the [[Sudetenland]] to Germany. In November, by the [[First Vienna Award]], Italy and Germany compelled Czechoslovakia (later Slovakia) to cede primarily Hungarian-inhabited Southern Slovakia to Hungary. They did this in spite of pro-German official declarations of Czech and Slovak leaders made in October. The [[Autonomous Land of Slovakia]] was established within the [[Second Czechoslovak Republic]].

On 14 March 1939, the [[Slovak Republic (1939–1945)|Slovak Republic]] (''Slovenská republika'') declared its independence and became a nominally independent state in Central Europe under [[Nazi Germany|Nazi German]] control of foreign policy and, increasingly, also some aspects of domestic policy. [[Jozef Tiso]] became Prime Minister and later President of the new state.

On 15 March, Nazi Germany invaded what remained of [[Bohemia]], [[Moravia]], and [[Silesia]] after the Munich agreement. The Germans established a protectorate over them which was known as the [[Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia]]. On the same day, [[Carpatho-Ukraine]] declared its independence. But Hungary immediately invaded and annexed the Republic of Carpatho-Ukraine. On 23 March, Hungary then occupied some additional disputed parts of territory of the present-day Eastern-Slovakia. This caused the brief [[Slovak-Hungarian War]].