In a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Czechoslovak_coup_d'état" id="mwrw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état">coup d'état</a> led by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klement_Gottwald" id="mwsA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Klement Gottwald">Klement Gottwald</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Czechoslovakia" id="mwsQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Communist Party of Czechoslovakia">Communist Party of Czechoslovakia</a> takes control of government in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague" id="mwsg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Prague">Prague</a> to end the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Czechoslovak_Republic" id="mwsw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Third Czechoslovak Republic">Third Czechoslovak Republic</a>.<sup about="#mwt102" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-18"}}' id="cite_ref-18" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./February_25#cite_note-18" id="mwtA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 18;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwtQ">[18]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-18"><cite about="#mwt99" class="citation web cs1" id="CITEREFSteil2018">Steil, Benn (9 May 2018). <a class="external text" href="https://www.historytoday.com/miscellanies/who-lost-czechoslovakia" id="mwBzM" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Who Lost Czechoslovakia?"</a>. London: History Today Ltd. <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200707214733/https://www.historytoday.com/miscellanies/who-lost-czechoslovakia" id="mwBzQ" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">Archived</a> from the original on 7 July 2020<span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwBzU">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwBzY">7 July</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt99" class="Z3988" id="mwBzc" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.btitle=Who+Lost+Czechoslovakia%3F&amp;rft.place=London&amp;rft.pub=History+Today+Ltd&amp;rft.date=2018-05-09&amp;rft.aulast=Steil&amp;rft.aufirst=Benn&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.historytoday.com%2Fmiscellanies%2Fwho-lost-czechoslovakia&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFebruary+25"></span></span>