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The dissolution of Czechoslovakia is the split between the two countries of Czech Republic and Slovakia. The two countries united as one country after the dissolution of Austria-Hungary at the end of WW1 in 1918. The Czech Republic and Slovakia both rose from the Czech Socialist Republic and the Slovak Socialist Republic. They volenteered to become one country although it was initionally two different territories and were later united as one Czechoslovakian Socialist Republic. They had large cutural differences between the two populations. There were some Slovaks the didn't favor the change, especially with the pressure from Hitler in March of 1939. But occupied by the Soviet Union, it oversaw the the reunite of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. In 1989, this led the end of communist rule in Czechoslovakia, also known as the Velvet Revolution. In June 1990, democratic elections were held for the first time in over 45 years. While communism is in effect in Czechoslovakia, Czech money was transferred to Slovakia but in 1991, this ended. When the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, or the Velvet Divorce, was being debated, it didn't have support. But on January 1, 1993, the Velvet Divorce went into effect. Czechoslovakia became two different countries that rose from the Czech Socialist Republic and the Slovak Socialist Republic. And, finally, on January 31, 1993, it became offical in the 1993 Declaration of Independence of the Slovak Nation. During the dissolution, polititions negotiated a smooth dissolution into two countries. After the dissolution, the Czech Republic and Slovakia remained on peaceful terms with each other. And in 2004, they both joined the European Union.