State · 1938 – 1939

Second Czechoslovak Republic

A state of 1938 – 1939 — one year in Europe. It replaced First Czechoslovak Republic. It was replaced by Czechoslovak government-in-exile. Its line of rulers holds 5 people. Its own article says it was dissolved.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: one year; 1938 – 1939
Rulers: 5; the President
Symbols: 2; on record, with years

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

Before it

First Czechoslovak Republic · replaces · 1918 – 1938

After it

Czechoslovak government-in-exile · replaced by

How it ended, as its article says

Dissolved, 1939-03-15. Read from the article's section “lead” by its grammar; the claim is only that the article says so.

The Second Republic was dissolved when Germany invaded it on 15 March 1939, and annexed the Czech region into the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.

One sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Rulers

Read from the state’s own English article and its rulers’ articles, where Wikidata names no ruler.

left alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared throne

3 terms are shared from [object Object].

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source
Milan Hodža · from the line of Czechoslovakia	1935 – 1938	3 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Edvard Beneš	1938 – 1938	under a year	ending not on record
Jan Syrový · from the line of Czechoslovakia	1938 – 1938	under a year	resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Emil Hácha	1938 – 1939	1 year	ending not on record
Rudolf Beran · from the line of Czechoslovakia	1938 – 1939	1 year	left office aliveread off the dates alone

5 rulers, 5 with terms dated as terms, covering 1935 – 1939. Only 4 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 1 of 4 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. The violent-handover count is withheld: power changed hands so often that any rising falls beside one (exposure 1.00, limit 0.6). A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Flags and arms, in order

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

coat of arms, undatedMedium coat of arms of Czechoslovakia (1918-1938 and 1945-1961) · Public domain
flag, 1920 – 1993Flag of the Czech Republic · Public domain

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

How long it stood1 years
stood longer than 3% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
Rulers on record5
has more rulers on record than 64% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 2 causes the record names and 1 result, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

in the articlelinked

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1928 – 1949, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1939, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q2010024 (CC0) · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · one sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.