The official name of the country during the last 30 years of Communist rule was "Czechoslovak Socialist Republic" (in Czech and in Slovak Československá socialistická republika, or ČSSR).
In December 1989—a month after the Velvet Revolution—President Václav Havel announced that the word "Socialist" would be dropped from the country's official name.
This proposal did not sit well with Czech politicians, as it brought back reminders of when the country's official name had been exactly "Czecho-Slovak Republic" during the 1938 Munich Agreement, in which Nazi Germany annexed a part of that territory.
Also at the same time, multiple words in a proper noun may be capitalized by the writer as a show of prestige (e.g. Starý Zákon lit.
[citation needed] Nonetheless, English language media generally refer to the conflict as the "Hyphen War".