Word: czechoslovakia
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...When Czechoslovakia split into the CzechRepublic and Slovakia, Havel became president ofthe Czech Republic...
Havel, who became president of Czechoslovakia in 1989, played a leading role in causing the collapse of Czechoslovakia's Communist regime...
...fairness, you did not invent the idea -- nationalism had become a religion, but you gave it a mighty push, resulting in new maps that were not much more logical than the old ones. The multinational Austro-Hungarian Empire, for instance, was followed by new constructs -- Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia -- containing as many disparate and often hostile peoples. Hence today's tribal conflicts. All too often, a mistreated minority achieves independence and then mistreats other minorities in its midst or tries to "rescue" its brethren who live on the other side of a national frontier. Thus self-determination for one people becomes aggression...
...great powers, for the first time in history, surrendered their absolute right to make war. Name the series of treaties and who signed these documents for the following countries: England, France, Italy and Czechoslovakia...
Navratilova was tough enough to withstand defection from Communist Czechoslovakia as a teenager, knowing she might never see her family again. She was gritty enough to bear the burden of being the world's most famous gay athlete, made harsher because she was also the first woman in her sport to train the way men do. Yet this stubborn competitor was always fragile, often on the edge of a "Martina meltdown." No one wins everything, but it seemed Navratilova should. Her fans still agonize over the 1989 U.S. Open, when she was two games away from beating Steffi Graf...