Impact of the Vienna Arbitration on Agriculture, Industry and Infrastructure in Southern Slovakia
Impact of the Vienna Arbitration on Agriculture, Industry and Infrastructure in Southern Slovakia

Author(s): Miroslav Sabol
Subject(s): Agriculture, Economic history, Oral history, Political history, Recent History (1900 till today), Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939)
Published by: Historický ústav SAV
Keywords: Southern Slovakia; Vienna Arbitration; Agriculture; Industry; Infrastructure; Munich Agreement;
Summary/Abstract: The positive developments in the Slovak economy during the economic boom of the second half of 1930s began to be hindered by constitutional and political changes in Central Europe of that period. The prologue to the complete disappearance of the inter-war Czechoslovakia was a short “interlude” of the so-called Second Republic of 1938 – 1939. The extortion of Nazi Germany and the appeasement policy of the European powers led to the Munich Agreement and the Vienna Arbitration in September and November 1938. Under these agreements made “about us without us”, the Czechoslovak Republic had to abandon the border areas to the neighbouring countries, which resulted in a politically, economically and militarily powerless state, left to the “mercy” of Hitler’s Germany.

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