Why did Czechoslovakia split into two countries?

During World War II and the Cold War, Czechoslovakia had a strong sense of existence in the world and left a deep impression on people in many countries in the world. The manufacturing industry in Czechoslovakia has a long history and is very developed. Czechoslovakia is also a country in the middle and upper reaches of Europe and a world-famous industrial manufacturing country with strong comprehensive strength. On the eve of World War II, Czechoslovakia was the first victim of the appeasement policy of Britain and France and fell into Hitler's clutches. After World War II, Czechoslovakia became a substitute for the socialist countries in Eastern Europe, creating a miracle of economic growth and becoming the most economically developed country in Eastern Europe.

Czechs and Slovaks are very close. They are all descendants of Western Slavs who immigrated from the grasslands of Eastern Europe in the late period of the great national migration in the 5th-6th century. At first, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and southern Poland all belonged to the powerful Slavic Greater Moravia country. This kingdom was very powerful in the 9th century, and once confronted Charlemagne Empire in Western Europe. At that time, there were no concepts of Czechs and Slovaks. They all belong to the great empire of the Western Slavs and are an absolutely unified nation.

After World War II, Czechoslovakia established a coalition government and joined the Warsaw Treaty Organization in the Soviet camp. This country has finally ushered in great development. From 1949 to 1960, Czechoslovakia successfully completed two five-year plans. In 1950s, the average annual growth rate of domestic industry reached 10.9%, and agricultural mechanization was basically completed. In the Warsaw Organization at that time, Czechoslovakia became the richest country. At that time, with the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the region once again became a federal republic.

The split of Czechoslovakia has very complicated internal and external factors. The economic and cultural differences between the Czech Republic and Slovakia caused by external historical factors are the main reasons for their parting ways. After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the rapid liberalization of the centralized political system plunged the country into the whirlpool of populism and oligarchy, which eventually led to the disintegration of the originally unified country.