Czecoslovakia and its problems

• There was great tension between different ethnic groups.
• The Czech of the western part of the country were wealthier than the Slovaks of the east. 
• Slovaks complained that they were treated a second-class citizens. 
• 65 per cent of the popullation were Czech or Slovacks and there were 30 over 3 millon Germans, 

Czechoslovakia came into existence.

• The Allied leaders hoped Czechoslovakia would provide a barrier between Austria and Germany.