Short answers, pulled from the story.
The Slovak Republic was founded on the 14th of March 1939, when the Slovak parliament voted unanimously to secede from Czechoslovakia under German pressure. It ceased to exist de facto on the 4th of April 1945, when the Soviet Red Army captured Bratislava, lasting just over six years.
Jozef Tiso served first as the republic's Prime Minister from the 14th of March 1939 to the 26th of October 1939, then as President until the 4th of April 1945. He met Hitler in Berlin on the 13th of March 1939 and returned to organize the independence vote. He was hanged in Bratislava on the 18th of April 1947 after being convicted of collaboration with Nazi Germany.
Approximately 58,000 Jews were deported from Slovakia in the first wave of deportations, which ran from the 25th of March 1942 to the 20th of October 1942, primarily to Auschwitz. A second wave began on the 30th of September 1944 under full German occupation, deporting another 13,500. A 2006 estimate found that approximately 105,000 Slovak Jews, or 77 percent of their pre-war population, died during the war.
Yes. The Slovak Republic paid Germany 500 Reichsmark for each deported Jew, officially designated for "retraining and accommodation." In return, Germany promised that the deportees would never return to Slovakia. The Slovak government also agreed to deport its entire Jewish population, not just the initial quota of 20,000 people.
The Slovak National Uprising was launched on the 29th of August 1944 from Banská Bystrica by resistance forces that included Democratic Party members, social democrats, and communists. It was triggered by the Nazi German occupation of the country and aimed to overthrow Tiso's collaborationist government. German forces suppressed the main uprising, but guerrilla resistance continued, and German reprisals destroyed 93 villages and produced 211 mass graves.
A total of 27 states recognized the wartime Slovak Republic, either de jure or de facto. They included Axis countries such as Romania and Hungary, Axis-dominated states like Vichy France and Manchukuo, and neutral countries including Switzerland, Sweden, and the Netherlands. The United States never recognized Slovak independence and remained consistent in refusing to acknowledge the Munich Agreement or any related territorial changes.