Mike Smith, age 9t of Wichita, Kansas, for his question:

What happened to Bohemia?

In 1526, the kingdom of Bohemia started a war that lasted some thirty years, The people of this European country did not approve of their Austrian king. So they rebelled. The war ended sadly for them. Bohemia became a crown land of Austria and was ruled for Vienna, That is how things remained until World War I.

The Austrian monarchy was put to rout in that bitter conflict. The country of Bohemia spoke up again for freedom, In 1918, the Bohemian capital of Prague became the capital of a brand new country called Czechoslovakia, Old Bohemia was no more. Its land and its people became part of a brand new nation,