Poland

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Sources

1. WebsitePeace Treaty of Brest-Litovsk; March 3, 1918
2. BookBrest-Litovsk: The Forgotten Peace, March 1918

Relations

member of:

• Warsaw Pact14 May 1955 – 1 Jul 1991

  Sources: The Cold War: A New History, The Cold War: A World History

location of:

• Auschwitz

  Sources: Auschwitz

• Chełmno extermination camp

  Sources: How Many People did the Nazis Murder?

• Constitutional Tribunal

  Sources: Global Abortion Policies Database

• Gdańsk

  Sources: A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II

• General Government

  Sources: Treblinka

led by:

• Tadeusz Mazowiecki24 Aug 1989 – 4 Jan 1991

  Sources: The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of ’89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague, Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire

successor state of:

• Polish People's Republicsince 29 Dec 1989

  Sources: The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of ’89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague, Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire

Appears in22 items

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  1989: The Wall Comes Down6 items
  • Poland: from the Round Table to the Third Republic6 Feb 1989
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    The Polish Round Table6 Feb 1989
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    Poland votes4 Jun 1989
  • Tiananmen Square, the same day4 Jun 1989
  • Mazowiecki, the bloc’s first non-Communist prime minister24 Aug 1989
  • The Polish People’s Republic becomes the Republic of Poland29 Dec 1989
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  The Age of Dinosaurs1 item
  • Dinosaur cousins leave footprintsc. 250 Ma
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  The Cold War4 items
  • Marshall announces his plan at Harvard5 Jun 1947
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    The Warsaw Pact invades Czechoslovakia21 Aug 1968
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    Willy Brandt kneels in Warsaw7 Dec 1970
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    The Gdańsk Agreement and Solidarity31 Aug 1980
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  The Russian Revolutions of 19171 item
  • Treaty of Brest-Litovsk3 Mar 1918
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  Votes for Women1 item
  • The First World War wave1915
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  Women’s Rights Beyond the Vote1 item
  • 
    Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal narrows abortion22 Oct 2020
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  World War II8 items
  • 
    The Nazi–Soviet Pact23 Aug 1939
  • The war in Europe1 Sep 1939
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    Germany invades Poland1 Sep 1939
  • Britain and France declare war on Germany3 Sep 1939
  • The Soviet Union invades Poland17 Sep 1939
  • The Katyn massacreApr 1940
  • Killing begins at Chełmno8 Dec 1941
  • Operation Reinhard17 Mar 1942