Jan Masaryk (September 14, 1886 – March 10, 1948) was a Czechoslovak diplomat and politician. September 14 is the 257th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (258th in leap years). ... 1886 is a common year starting on Friday (click on link to calendar) // Events January 18 - Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. ... March 10 is the 69th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (70th in Leap years). ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Czechoslovakia (Czech: ÄŒeskoslovensko, Slovak: ÄŒesko-Slovensko/before 1990 ÄŒeskoslovensko, German: Tschechoslowakei) was a country in Central Europe that existed from 1918 until 1992 (except for the World War II period). ... This page is about negotiations; for the board game, see Diplomacy (game). ... A politician is an individual involved in politics. ...

Born in Prague, he was the son of the diplomat Tomáš Masaryk who became the first President of Czechoslovakia, and the American born Charlotte Garrigue. Masaryk was educated in Prague and also in the US. He returned home in 1913 and served in the Austro-Hungarian army during the First World War. He joined the diplomatic service and became chargé d'affaires to the USA in 1919, a post he held until 1922. In 1925 he was created Ambassador to Britain. His father resigned as President in 1935 and died two years later. He was succeeded by Edvard Beneš. Prague (Czech: Praha, see also other names) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. ... Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, sometimes called Thomas Masaryk in English, (March 7, 1850 Hodonín, Moravia, Austria, now Czech Republic - September 14, 1937 Lány, Czechoslovakia, now Czech Republic) was an advocate of Czechoslovak independence during WW I and became the first President of Czechoslovakia. ... This is a list of presidents of Czechoslovakia. ... Prague (Czech: Praha, see also other names) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. ... 1913 (MCMXIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Edvard BeneÅ¡ Edvard BeneÅ¡ â–¶(?) (May 28, 1884 - September 3, 1948) was a leader of the Czechoslovak independence movement and the second President of Czechoslovakia. ...

In September 1938 the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia was occupied by German forces and Masaryk resigned as Ambassador in protest, although he remained in London. Other government members including Beneš also resigned. In March 1939 Germany occupied the remaining Czech lands, and a puppet Slovak state was established. When a Czechoslovak government in exile was established in Britain in 1940, Masaryk was appointed Foreign Minister. During the war he regularly made broadcasts over the BBC to occupied Czechoslovakia. He had a flat at 58 Westminster Gardens in London but often stayed at the Czechoslovak Chancellery building at Wingrave or with President Beneš at Aston Abbotts near Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire. 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Sudetenland (-German; Czech: Sudety) was the name used from 1938–45 for the region inhabited mostly by Sudeten Germans (German: Sudetendeutsche, Czech: SudetÅ¡tí NÄ›mci) in the various places of Bohemia, Moravia, and parts of Silesia. ... 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... A government in exile is a political group that claims to be a countrys legitimate government, but for various reasons is unable to exercise its legal power, and instead resides in a foreign country. ... 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Wingrave is a village in Buckinghamshire, England. ... Aston Abbotts (or Aston Abbots) is a village in Buckinghamshire, England. ... Map of Bucks (1904) Buckinghamshire (abbreviated Bucks) is a county in South East England. ...

Masaryk remained Foreign Minister following the liberation of Czechoslovakia as part of the multi-party National Front government. The Communists under Klement Gottwald saw their position strengthened after the 1946 elections but Masaryk stayed on as Foreign Minister. He was concerned with retaining the friendship of the Soviet Union, but was dismayed by the veto they put on Czechoslovak participation in the Marshall Plan. In February 1948 the majority of the non-communist cabinet members resigned hoping to force new elections, but instead a communist government under Gottwald was formed. Masaryk remained Foreign Minister, although he was apparently uncertain about his decision. The National Front (in Czech: Národní fronta, in Slovak: Národný front) was a (permanent) coalition (or rather group) of parties – since 1948 also of various associations and mass organisations – from 1945 to 1990 in Czechoslovakia. ... A 1950s Czechoslovak propaganda poster depicting Gottwald and Stalin Klement Gottwald (November 23, 1896, DÄ›dice(VyÅ¡kov), South Moravia, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic) - March 14, 1953) was a Czechoslovakian Communist politician, longtime leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSÄŒ or CPCz or CPC). ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Map of Europe showing the countries that received Marshall Plan aid. ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ...

In March 1948 Masaryk was found dead in the courtyard of the Foreign Ministry below his bathroom window. The initial investigation concluded that he committed suicide by jumping out of the window, although many are convinced that he was pushed. The conclusion of death by suicide was reaffirmed by an investigation taken in 1968 during Prague Spring and in the early 1990's after the fall of the Berlin Wall. However, in the beginning of 2004 police concluded that he was murdered by his opponents, and that he did not commit suicide as was ruled initially: His death was therefore the third of the Defenestrations of Prague. Regardless, the circumstances of Masaryk's death are still rather obscure. 1948 (MCMXLVIII) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Czechs in a café watch Soviet tanks roll past The Prague Spring (Czech: Pražské jaro) was a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia starting January 5, 1968, and running until August 20 of that year when the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies (except for Romania) invaded the... Berlin Wall on November 16, 1989 The Berlin Wall (German: Die Berliner Mauer) was a long barrier separating West Berlin from East Berlin and the surrounding territory of East Germany. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A contemporary woodcut of the defenestration in 1618. ...