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World War II in CzechoslovakiaOn September 29, 1938, Germany, Britain, France, and Italy sign the Munich Pact. This effectively gave Germany "permission" to invade the Sudeten territories of Czechoslovakia. On March 15, 1939, German troops entered Prague and completed the invasion of Czechoslovakia, ignoring the Munich Pact. In June 1942, Germans decimated the Czech village of Lidice after Czech resistance fighters killed an SS official named Reinhard Heydrich. Czechoslovakia was liberated in 1945.
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