AHC: Czechoslovenia

I'm sure the similar names between "Slovakia" and "Slovenia" have at some point in our lives tripped up at least a few people here (and elsewhere), plus they have similar looking flags. Of course, the names of both groups and their flags share a common origin. Both states also have a common history as part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. But of the two, only Slovakia was joined to Czechia.

So with a POD of 1900, how can we get a state called "Czechoslovenia" to arise?

And it isn't like this is the craziest idea either, since there's always the post-WWI proposal of the Czech Corridor, which I believe is the easiest way to get this to come about. Sadly, the majority of Slavs in the corridor are Croats.

My idea--Czech Corridor is created, which goes to Czechoslovakia. We have WWII, and all sides get banged up. Czechoslovakia is dissolved, but in the aftermath, the corridor is expanded through ethnic cleansing of Germans similar to what happened in OTL, and now links Czechia with Yugoslavia (Slovenia). Slovenia alone of Yugoslavia manages to break free from communism, and in a dash for allies, decides to federate with Czechia, also in need of allies against communism, creating the new Czechoslovene Republic.

This is probably ASB but if anyone has any better ideas I'd love to hear them. If you need to use a POD further back, don't go more than a century or two.
 
Doug Muir had an answer to this challenge in soc.history.what-if some years ago:

"...The "Trialism" of Franz Ferdinand was a
variant of this scheme. FF wanted to turn the Austro-Hungarian Empire
into the Austro-Slavo-Hungarian Empire.

"Trialism" seems to have been a pretty nebulous program. After all,
the A-H empire included several very different groups of Slavs:
Czechs, Poles, Croats, Serbs, Slovaks, Bosnians, and Ruthenians. It's
not clear to me if FF ever espoused a particular version of Trialism.

Still, it's not hard to imagine a TL where FF survives to take the
throne. Then he tries to enforce Trialism, only to find that the
Hungarians aren't having any. He ends up granting autonomy and "royal
kingdom" status, but only to the Slavs on the Austrian side -- the
Czechs, Poles, and Slovenes.

Later, the Empire breaks up. The Polish piece of Slavonia peels off
to join an independent Poland. However, Hungary stays in one piece --
the "Greater Hungary" of 1868-1914, stretching from the Ukraine to the
Adriatic. So the Czech and Slovene pieces, though physically
separate, remain politically united out of fear of Greater Hungary,
which borders them both.

Czecheslovenia is probably long-term unstable, but I could see it
lasting for a while."

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/soc.history.what-if/sQLXEVL5FZk/g3DXaDg53bwJ
 
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