Czechoslovakian Crisis, 1948

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Czechoslovakian Crisis, 1948

Causes

  • The USA offered Marshall Aid to Czechoslovakia. The coalition government unanimously agreed to accept.
  • Masaryk died of defenestration on March 10, 1948

Effects

  • PM Gottwald and FM Masaryk were summoned to the USSR
  • Stalin threatened Czechoslovakian safety
  • Czechoslovakia withdrew from Marshall Aid talks
  • "I went to Moscow as the foreign minister of an independent sovereign state," [Jan Masaryk] said, "I returned as a Soviet slave."
  • After Masaryk's death
  • Masaryk's funeral symbolised the end of a free Czechoslovakia
  • There was a five-day coup and the communists assumed control
  • The 'threat' of communism was pushed to the light and the Marshall Plan approved by Congress

Overall summary

Czechoslovakia was going to accept Marshall Aid, but this was put to a stop when Stalin threatened the safety of Czechoslovakia. Not long after, the Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk died, and the communists seized control of the country. As a result, the Marshall Plan was fully approved by the US Congress.

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