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1939

March

14
- The proclamation of the Slovak StateOn 14 March 1939, under pressure from Hitler, the diet in Bratislava declared Slovakia independent. Father Tiso’s state depended on the Reich from the start.
23
- The German–Slovak Treaty of ProtectionOn 23 March 1939 Ribbentrop signed a treaty placing Slovakia under Reich “protection”, giving the Wehrmacht a zone of its territory and control of its army.
- The Slovak–Hungarian War beginsAt dawn on 23 March 1939 Hungarian troops entered eastern Slovakia without a declaration of war. Germany, guarantor of the new state, did not come to its aid.
31
- The end of the Slovak–Hungarian WarBy late March 1939 the Hungarian–Slovak fighting had died down. A ceasefire came under German pressure on 24 March, but skirmishes went on until 31 March.

April

04
- The Hungarian–Slovak border agreementOn 4 April 1939 in Budapest Slovakia recognised a new border with Hungary, ceding the strip around Sobrance and Stakčín seized in the “Little War”.

August

26
- The Jablunkov incidentOn the night of 25–26 August 1939 Abwehr saboteurs, unaware the attack was off, seized Mosty station but failed to take the tunnel under the Jablunkov Pass.

September

October

26
- Tiso becomes President of SlovakiaOn 26 October 1939 the Bratislava parliament unanimously elected the priest Jozef Tiso President of Slovakia. The next day Vojtech Tuka became Prime Minister.

November

1940

November

20
- Hungary, Romania and Slovakia join the Tripartite PactBetween 20 and 24 November 1940 Hungary, Romania and Slovakia joined the Tripartite Pact. Hitler bound to the Axis the states he needed for war in the east.

1941

June

26
- Hungary and Slovakia declare war on the USSRSlovakia joined the war on the USSR on 23 June 1941. Hungary, after a mysterious air raid on Kassa on 26 June, announced a state of war the next day.

1944

August

29
- Key eventThe Slovak National UprisingOn 29 August 1944, as the Wehrmacht entered Slovakia, Lt Col Ján Golian signalled a rising against the Germans and Tiso. Its centre was Banská Bystrica.

October

06
- At the Dukla PassOn 6 October 1944 troops of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps and the 38th Army crossed the Dukla Pass into Slovakia after a month of bloody fighting.

1945

April

04
- The capture of BratislavaOn 4 April 1945 troops of the 2nd Ukrainian Front took Bratislava. Tiso's government had already fled to Austria; the Slovak State ceased to exist.

May

08
- The surrender of the Tiso governmentOn 8 May 1945, at Kremsmünster in Austria, Prime Minister Štefan Tiso's fugitive government of the Slovak Republic submitted to the US XX Corps.