The president was Lyndon B. Johnson, and Soviet Union tanks had just rolled into Czechoslovakia on Aug. 20, 1968. Johnson’s call was to Richard M. Nixon, the Republican nominee for president, on ...

So far, we’ve looked at the USSR in 1960, Spain in 1964, Italy in 1968 and West Germany in 1972. This time, it’s the turn of Czechoslovakia in 1976.

Former Czechoslovakia captain Novak dies at 79Ladislav Novak, who captained Czechoslovakia to the final of the 1962 World Cup in Chile, has died. He was 79. The Czech football federation said in a ...

Miroslav Rybář originally had security forces in mind when he conceived the Skorpion VZ 61 in 1959, but it was readily accepted by the Czechoslovakian army for use by low-ranking staff, vehicle ...

Czechoslovakia was the home nation of Trump’s first wife, Ivana, a model, athlete and businesswoman who became the mother of his three oldest children: Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric.

A 1981 Czechoslovak news report shows politicians and cheering crowds welcoming Afghanistan's communist president, Babrak Karmal, during his visit to Prague and Bratislava. Karmal, a former ...

CZECHOSLOVAKIA (See Cover) Up the winding road to Hradčany Castle, which broods above Prague's Baroque towers and its wide, grey Vltava River, came a steady stream of Tatra limousines.

When Pope John Paul II visited Czechoslovakia in 1990, huge crowds turned out to greet him. But when he returned for a third, and final, visit in 1997, the crowds were embarrassingly thin.

In 1938, when Hitler seized Czechoslovakia, many in its German-speaking Sudetenland region welcomed the Nazis as liberators. Just seven years later, with the Nazis defeated, they were declared ...

Czechoslovakia is turning it over to nobody, and that is one reason why President Benes can confidently tell visitors that if they ask the next man they meet in the street whether he will fight ...