History of Austria wanting to annex the country to the German Third Reich, resulting in the assassination of Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss. While the coup failed, Adolf Hitler succeeded in annexing Austria on 12 March 1938 as "Ostmark", until 1945. Austria was partitioned after the Second World War and then in 1955 became the independent sovereign state (Second Republic) that has existed to the present day. In 1995, Austria joined the European Union. The modern state of Austria is considered to have three geographic zones. The biggest third consists of the Alps, which covers 62.8% of the country's landmass. In the north, across the
Provincial Christian-Socialist Party , ) but got only 17,285 votes, not enough for a parliamentary seat. On June 21, 1936 the party merged with the Hungarian National Party into "Egyesült Magyar Párt" (EMP, "United Hungarian Party") led by János Esterházy as national executive chairman (until then leader of OKSZP) and Andor Jaross as national chairman. Provincial Christian-Socialist Party The Provincial Christian-Socialist Party (, OKSZP; ; ) was the main political party of ethnic Hungarians in the First Czechoslovak Republic. It was founded on 23 November 1919 in Košice, by the merger of Catholic associations from Bratislava and Košice, but the first party convention