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expatriate communities in the United States signed the Pittsburgh Agreement, based on the Cleveland Agreement signed on October 22, 1915, calling for an independent state of Czechoslovakia in their European homeland;
Whereas the Czechoslovak Legions formed during World War I in Russia, France, and Italy and supportive of the effort to create an independent state of Czechs and Slovaks were recognized as Allied forces by the United States and supported by the Government of the United States in their evacuation from Siberia in July 2018;
Whereas, on September 3, 1918, the United States Government recognized the Czecho-Slovak National Council as the official Government of Czechoslovakia;
Whereas the Declaration of Independence of the Czechoslovak Nation by its Provisional Government was drafted by Tomáš G. Masaryk, the Prime Minister of the Czechoslovak Provisional Government who later became the first President of Czechoslovakia, while residing in the United States, signed by the leaders of the Czechoslovak Provisional Government Tomáš G. Masaryk, Milan R. Štefánik, and Edvard Beneš, and submitted to the Department of State on October 18, 1918;
Whereas the peoples of the present day Czech Republic and the present day Slovak Republic proclaimed their independence in the common state of the Republic of Czechoslovakia on October 28 and October 30, 1918;
Whereas, on November 12, 1918, diplomatic relations between the United States and Czechoslovakia were formally established;
Whereas the Munich Agreement signed on September 30, 1938, permitted Nazi Germany's annexation of portions
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