Pittsburg Treaty
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Pittsburg Treaty, or the "Pittsburgh Accord", was an agreement signed by T. G. Masaryk on May 2, 1917 that paved the way for the creation of the state of Czechoslovakia.
Because the biggest group of politically-active Slovaks was in the United States, when the Czechs and Slovaks decided to come together in a nation state, the agreement was signed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Czecho-Slovak accord, as it was called, proclaimed that the groups would work from mutual independence and then form one country: “Czecho-Slovakia.” Czechs promised an autonomy for Slovaks in this document. It wasn't eventually fulfilled, thus leading to protests from Slovak politicians like Andrej Hlinka.
