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title: Czechoslovakia (illustrated information map sheet)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/cz-czechoslovakia-information-map-sheet-1939/
description: A large fold-out sheet with a map of Czechoslovakia ringed in orange, panels on history, culture, industry and agriculture.
section: Collection
---

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# Czechoslovakia (illustrated information map sheet)

A large fold-out sheet with a map of Czechoslovakia ringed in orange, panels on history, culture, industry and agriculture, and photographs including T. G. Masaryk, President Benes with President Roosevelt at the White House (1943) and Czechoslovak army units in Britain and the USSR. The sheet is mainly informational; the tell for transfer is the pairing of the state's map and history with portraits of Masaryk and with the Allied leaders and armies.

## Propaganda techniques used in this print

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
CZECHOSLOVAKIA
AREA: 54,244 square miles. POPULATION in 1938: 15,247,000
CAPITAL: PRAHA (Prague), population approximately one million
COAT OF ARMS
HISTORY
[numbered chronology from 800-863 to 1938-1939; the final entry reads:] 1938-39: As a result of the Munich dictate, Czechoslovakia lost approximately a third of its territory and population to Germany, Hungary and Poland, and is finally occupied by Germany and Hungary. Czechoslovaks at home, in the U.S.A., France, England, Soviet Russia and the rest of the world, wage open and underground struggle against the invaders.
CULTURE
INDUSTRY
THE PEOPLE
AGRICULTURE
CZECHOSLOVAKIA, Heart of Europe
President Edvard Benes with President F. D. Roosevelt at the White House, 1943
Czechoslovak Army in Great Britain
Czechoslovak Army Unit in the USSR
SOKOL FESTIVAL in Prague
Issued by the Czechoslovak Government Information Service, 1790 Broadway, N. Y. C.
Printed in the U. S. A.
[Only headings, captions and the final chronology entry are transcribed; the body text is small print.]
```

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