Editing Bohemia (section)

===Interbellum===
[[File:Czechoslovakia01.png|thumb|upright=1.25|Bohemia (westernmost area) in Czechoslovakia 1918–1938]]
[[File:Czechoslovakia 1930 linguistic map - en.jpg|thumb|upright=1.25|Linguistic map of interwar Czechoslovakia ({{Circa|1930}})]]

After [[World War I]], the [[Sudeten Germans|German Bohemians]] demanded that the regions with German-speaking majority be included in a [[Republic of German-Austria|German state]]. But Czech political leaders claimed the entire Bohemian lands, including majority German-speaking areas, for Czechoslovakia.<ref>{{cite book|title=Changing Places: Society, Culture, and Territory in the Saxon-Bohemian Borderlands, 1870-1946|first=Caitlin|last=Murdock|publisher=University of Michigan Press|year=2010|page=100}}: "Czech political leaders claimed the entire Bohemian crown lands, including majority German-speaking areas, for Czechoslovakia. In the nineteenth century, Czech nationalist activists had used Bohemia’s historical status as an independent kingdom to argue for Bohemian states rights (Staatsrecht/státní pravo) within the Habsburg Empire"</ref> By the end of October, bilingual towns had been occupied by Czech forces. By end of November, many purely German-speaking towns had been occupied.<ref>{{cite book|chapter=Im Widerstreit der Selbstbestimmungsansprüche: Vom Habsburgerstaat zur Tschechoslowakei - die Deutschen der böhmischen Länder 1918 bis 1919|title=Der Erste Weltkrieg und die Beziehungen zwischen Tschechen, Slowaken, und Deutschen|editor=Hans Mommsen |editor2=Dušan Kováč |editor3=Jiří Malíř|publisher=Klartext|year= 2001|pages=197–198}}: "Schon am 30. Oktober 1918 erreichten den Statsrat erste Meldungen über die teschcische und südslawische Besetzung zweisprachiger Orte entlang der Sprachgrenze. [...] Kaum war der Entschluß zu den Provinzgründungen publik, da begann die tschechische Besetzung von mehrheitlich- oder ausschließlich-deutschen Orten an der Peripherie des deutschen Anspruchsgebiets"</ref> German or Austrian troops, bound by the ceasefire agreement, did not support Bohemian German self-defense, while the Czechoslovak army, an [[Allies of World War I|Entente]] army, could freely operate.<ref>{{cite book|chapter=Im Widerstreit der Selbstbestimmungsansprüche: vom Habsburgerstaat zur Tschechoslowakei–die Deutschen der böhmischen Länder 1918 bis 1919|title=Der Erste Weltkrieg und die Beziehungen zwischen Tschechen, Slowaken und Deutschen|editor=Hans Mommsen |editor2=Dušan Kováč |editor3=Jiří Malíř|publisher=Klartext|year= 2001|pages=203}}: "Die Ausweitung des Konfliktes zum förmlichen Krieg zwischen Deutschösterreich und der Tschechoslowakei war jedoch mit den gesamtsataatlichen Zielen unvereinbar. Deutschösterreich unterstand den Bedingungen des Wafenstillstandes, während andereseits die Tschehslowakei zu den verbündeten Siegersaaten zählte und daher ihre Armee als Ententeheer laut Waffenstilland Beweungsfreiheit in ganz Österreich-Ungarn genoss</ref> The absorption of the German-speaking areas in [[Czechoslovakia]] was hence a ''fait accompli''.<ref>{{cite book|title=Changing Places: Society, Culture, and Territory in the Saxon-Bohemian Borderlands, 1870-1946|first=Caitlin|last=Murdock|publisher=University of Michigan Press|year=2010|page=103}}:"By mid-December, the borderlands were firmly under Czechoslovak control. A Czechoslovak state with the historic borders of the Bohemian crown was a fait accomplit"</ref>

As a result, all of Bohemia (as the largest and most populous land) became the core of the newly formed country of [[Czechoslovakia]], which combined Bohemia, [[Moravia]], [[Czech Silesia]], [[Upper Hungary]] (present-day [[Slovakia]]) and [[Carpathian Ruthenia]] into one state.<ref>{{cite book |last=Preclík|first=Vratislav|title=Masaryk a legie|pages=111–112, 124–125, 128, 129, 132, 140–148, 184–209|publisher=Paris Karviná in association with the Masaryk Democratic Movement, Prague|year=2019|language=cs|isbn=978-80-87173-47-3}}</ref> Under its first president, [[Tomáš Masaryk]], Czechoslovakia became a liberal democratic republic, but serious issues emerged regarding the Czech majority's relationship with the [[Sudeten Germans|German]] and Hungarian minorities.