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Czechoslovakism (Czech: Čechoslovakismus, Slovak: Čechoslovakizmus) is a term for political and cultural conception of Czechoslovakia, which was made by the nations of Czechs and Slovaks. This nation was made ideologically for new aborning country, which needed to identify itself on national level. Czechoslovakia was a young country and nations living there were since 1526 part of Habsburg Monarchy.

This ideology is essential for the creation of Czechoslovakia in 1918.

It was an official conception that Czechoslovakia is a nation of Czechoslovaks. It was a state doctrine which was also part of Constitution from year 1920. According to this and also the statistics about population and nations in the country from the era of the First Republic (1918-1938) were talking about Czechoslovaks and not about Czechs and Slovaks:

Nationalities of Czechoslovakia 1921^[1]
total population	13,607.385
Czechoslovaks	8,759.701	64.37 %
Germans	3,123.305	22.95 %
Hungarians	744.621	5.47 %
Ruthenians	461.449	3.39 %
Jews	180.534	1.33 %
Poles	75.852	0.56 %
Others	23.139	0.17 %
Foreigners	238.784	1.75 %

It was ideological nation, but not all people agreed with this ideology (mainly Slovaks). During the World War II, when Czechoslovakia was occupied by the German Third Reich nationalist tendencies in Slovakia for indenpedency rised. It led to the creation of the independent Slovak State. After World War II Czechoslovakia was reunited, but ideology of one nation was not fully restored.

The final end to this idea was a new constitution from 1968 which says, that Czechoslovakia is a federation of two national republics.