The Party of National Unity was a party created on 21 November 1938 in the Czech

Czech Republic

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 part of Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia

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 after the occupation of large parts of the country by Germany

Germany

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 (Munich Agreement

Munich Agreement

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) and Hungary

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 (Vienna Award) as a kind of last attempt to unify forces to save Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia

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 from disappearing. Its Slovak equivalent in the Slovak

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 part of Czechoslovakia was the Hlinka's Slovak Peoples Party - Party of Slovak National Unity

Slovak People's Party

The Slovak People's Party was a Slovak right-wing party and was described as a fascist and...

 created on 8 November.

It included almost all previous Czech political parties - more precisely all right parties and a big part of the Czechoslovak National Socialist Party. Ideologically the party was quasi-fascist.

The Party's chairman was the Prime Minister

Prime minister

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 Rudolf Beran

Rudolf Beran

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.

The party was forcibly dissolved after the creation of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia

Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia

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 in March 1939. A part of the membership created the Národní souručenství (in English approx. National Partnership), the only Czech political organization permitted by the Germans in the Protectorate.