Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

The dissolution of Czechoslovakia (Czech: Rozdělení Československa, Slovak: Rozdelenie Československa), which took effect on December 31, 1992, was the self-determined secession of the federal republic of Czechoslovakia into the independent countries of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Both mirrored the Czech Socialist Republic and the Slovak Socialist Republic, which had been created in 1969 as the constituent states of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic until the end of 1989.

Dissolution of Czechoslovakia
Part of the aftermath of the Revolutions of
1989
Czechoslovakia between 1968 (Constitutional Law of Federation) and 1989 (Velvet Revolution)
Date17 July 1992 – 31 December 1992
(5 months and 2 weeks)
Location Czech and Slovak Federative Republic:
Outcome
Part of a series on the
History of Czechoslovakia
Origins of Czechoslovakia1918
First Czechoslovak Republic1918–1938
Munich Agreement1938
Second Czechoslovak Republic1938–1939
German occupation1939–1945
     Bohemia and Moravia1939–1945
     Slovak Republic1939–1945
Third Czechoslovak Republic1945–1948
     Coup d'état1948
Czechoslovak Socialist Republic1948–1989
     Prague Spring/Invasion1968
Velvet Revolution1989
     Post-revolution1989–1992
Dissolution of Czechoslovakia1993

It is sometimes known as the Velvet Divorce, a reference to the bloodless Velvet Revolution of 1989, which had led to the end of the rule of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.

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