There are only a few portraits of important figures who made a lasting impact on the League of Nations in the UN Museum Geneva. Among them is US president Woodrow Wilson, one of the fathers of the united Europe Aristride Briand, and Slovak Štefan Osuský, one of the spiritual pillars of the league, the predecessor of the UN.

 

The onset of World War II saw Slovakia as a vassal state of  Nazi Germany. However, in 1944, Slovaks reaffirmed their democratic values and were determined to overthrow the unpopular authoritarian and collaborationist government.
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On August 20, 1968, citizens of former Czechoslovakia went to sleep expecting to wake up to nothing less than an ordinary day. Unbeknownst to them, Warsaw Pact troops were gathering at their borders and about to invade. After the overnight operation was over, peoples of Czechoslovakia awoke to see tanks and foreign soldiers in the streets of their cities.
 

Astronomer, aviator, diplomat, brigadier general in the French army, successful politician, but most importantly, charismatic statesman. These are just a few professions and accomplishments of Milan Rastislav Štefánik, a very prominent figure of early 20th century Slovak history.

Under the influence of the Soviet Union, the word “temporary” achieved a new meaning during the Cold War. When its army invaded Czechoslovakia in August 1968, the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies initially portrayed their presence in the country as a temporary measure....
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This year May 31 marks the 105th anniversary of the signing of the Pittsburgh Agreement, a memorandum of understanding between the Slovak and Czech expatriate communities in the US, with the intention of creating a common and independent republic.

Every country has its heroes. Among the Slovak ones is Jozef Gabčík, a courageous soldier and one of the key participants in Operation Anthropoid, a mission to assassinate Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich. The operation is considered one of the most significant acts of resistance during World War II.
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This year, we celebrate the 104th anniversary of the formation of Czechoslovakia. The 1918 origin story was a culmination of an effort of both Slovaks and Czechs against their rulers. Close contact between these two nations led to the idea of an independent state that emerged during World War I.....

Rudolf Vrba and Alfréd Wetzler actually achieved was even more important. They were the first to provide a credible and detailed eye-witness account of mass murders in the camp.

Every now and then, each nation has a political figure who steps up and guides it through difficult times. It is perhaps coincidental that two important leaders in Slovak history were born in the village of Uhrovec, western Slovakia, in the same house actually: the revolutionary politician Ľudovít Štúr in 1815 and politician Alexander Dubček in 1921.

A politician, journalist, publicist, thinker and visionary, the first Slovak prime minister of Czechoslovakia, one of the first proponents of European integration. 

November 17 is a national holiday in Slovakia, symbolising the fall of the Communist regime. More and more Slovak and Czech students as well as other fellow citizens flooded the streets of cities on this and the following days, eventually resulting in the end of the totalitarian regime in Czechoslovakia. 

The Candle Demonstration on the eve of March 25, 1988 marked the beginning of the end of the Communist regime. It was one of the most significant manifestation of civil resistance in former Czechoslovakia.
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