 Slovaks were often listed as from Hungary.After the formation of Czechoslovakia in 1918, Czechs and Slovaks were also listed under this new blanket category.The Czech American community gained a high public profile in 1911, with the kidnapping and murder in Chicago of the five-year old Elsie Paroubek - when the Czech American community mobilized massively to help in the searches for the girl and support her family, and gained much sympathy from the general American public.