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In what year did Jozef Tiso become president of Slovakia?

  • 1939

  • 1940

  • 1938

  • 1945

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Jozef Tiso became president of Slovakia in 1939, when he was appointed by Adolf Hitler to head the Slovak Republic, a puppet state of Nazi Germany. He was a Catholic priest and a member of the Slovak People's Party, which was committed to Slovak independence from Czechoslovakia.
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