Wilson + Masaryk =Best buddies / Wilson + Masaryk = nejlepsi kamosi

All right, we know that Czechoslovakia, the new democratic republic on the map of Europe, was established in 1918. Slovaks wanted to join the Czechs in their new beginnings to break away from Austria-Hungary and create their own semi-private state. Who saved the situation? In one of his Fourteen Points, the US president Woodrow Wilson demanded that all of the nationalities of the defeted empire (Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, Hungarians, Austrians, Slovenes, Croats and Serbs) have “freest opportunity to autonomous development“. To help the whole situation the about-to-become the president of Czechoslovakia, T.G. Masaryk, visited Pittsburgh to seal the whole deal. What exactly is the Pittsburgh Agreement? Which group was more active in their patriotic ways to help create the new republic? The Czech and Slovak domestic independence movement back “home” or the Czech and Slovak immigrant organizations in the US? Find out right here.

CR: Vsichni vime, ze Ceskoslovensko vzniklo na podzim roku 1918. Oba narody, jak Cesi, tak Slovaci chteli vytvorit svuj vlastni stat. Tak proc se nedat dohromady? Kdo jim k vytvoreni tohoto cile pomohl? Obrovskym “andelem straznym” (a to nejen pro Cechy a Slovaky, ale take pro Polaky, Rakusany, Madary, Kroaty a Srby) se stal americky president Woodrow Wilson. Ve svem paktu “Forteen Points” se dozadoval, aby kazda narodnost upadajici Austro-Habsurgske monarchie mela moznost svobodneho autonomniho vyvoje. Budouci prezident Ceskoslovenska – T.G. Masaryk – pote navstivil Pittsburg, aby tuto samostatnost nadobro specetil. Co presne je Pittsburgska dohoda? Kdo byl aktivnejsi v boji pro svobodu, Cesi a Slovaci “doma” nebo imigrantske spolky v USA? Pro odpovedi kliknete zde.

Source:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austro-Hungarian_Empire

http://www.praguepost.com/articles/2008/06/18/the-pittsburgh-agreement-at-90.php