sentences:  The establishment and effectiveness of the Pětka reflects two significant aspects of political life in post-World War I Czechoslovakia.First, it demonstrates the impulse towards consensus among the leaders of the newly formed Czechoslovakia, which had only come into being as an independent state with the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the end of World War I.This sentiment was captured in the slogan of the coalitions forged by Švehla, "We have agreed that we will agree."