Example sentences for: czechoslovakia

How can you use “czechoslovakia” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The cover review of a new Madeleine Albright biography argues that she had a personal stake in the Kosovo conflict because Slobodan Milosevic represents the two evil forces that shaped her childhood: communism, which her father claimed drove him from his beloved Czechoslovakia, and ethnic hatred, which led to the Holocaust in which three of her grandparents perished.

  • The army was preparing its march into what used to be Czechoslovakia, but onlookers shared none of the fervor that had greeted military parades in 1914.

  • Inheriting the most depressed regions of former Czechoslovakia and a massive, outmoded arms-manufacturing industry, it fared badly after its 1992-1993 split with the Czech Republic.

  • About two-thirds of the country, including the traditional homeland of Transylvania, was handed over to the new “Successor States” — Romania, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia.

  • Václav Havel was in New York in the spring of 1968, participated in the student strike at Columbia, joined Alexander Dubcek in the short-lived liberal uprising in Prague that summer, and became the president of Czechoslovakia in 1990.


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