A hyphen had previously been used between 1918 and 1920, and again between 1938 and 1939, but one wasn't used outside of those periods of independence.
The Hyphen War was the dispute over what to call this country. A hyphen had previously been used between 1918 and 1920, and again between 1938 and 1939, but one wasn't used outside of those periods of independence. One attempted compromise would have had a hyphen used in one of its two official languages, and not in the other. For 10 points, name this defunct country whose underlying cultural differences ultimately resulted in the Velvet Divorce and whose capital city used to be Prague?
The Hyphen War was the dispute over what to call this country.
{Czechoslovakia }