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Tiso's Puppet StateWhen Slovakia entered the 1st Czechoslovak Republic in 1918, she did so thinking it would be an equal partnership. Although, the situation was much more favorable than when she was a state in the Kingdom of Hungary, it soon became apparent that the partnership with Czech was certainly not equal. There were a number of reasons for this inequality. The Slovak economy was less developed than the Czechs, the people less educated, and far less ready for self-government. Also, the Slovaks were greatly outnumbered by the Czechs, so it would be impossible to have equal representation in the government based in Prague. Slovak resentment for this lack of equality steadily got worse, and leading Slovak figures, such as Andrej Hlinka, began calling for greater equality and Slovak autonomy. By 1938, with Europe on the brink of war, the Slovak National movement was strong, and the Slovak Populist Party, led by Father Jozef Tiso, was very powerful within the country.
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