Poland


 * POLAND -what you have is good, seems like you are missing Poland before the late 1700s, and how does Poland come to exist again after the partitions? That would be essential to fully describe. And more about what happens to Poland in WWII (and I wonder how they react to that - what do they do after the war to try to prevent it happening again?) **




 * The War of Polish Succession 1733-1738**
 * This was a war to determine who would succeed Augustus the 2nd.
 * After Augustus died, Russia and Austria wanted Augustus’ son to take the crown- Fredrick Augustus the 2nd.
 * Most Poles wanted Stansilow Leszczyński to take over because during the years 1704-1709, he did rule Poland. He took over when Sweden temporary wanted Augustus out of office.
 * France and Spain agreed with the Poles that Stansilow should take over.
 * Russia approached Poland so Sansilow fled to Gdnask.
 * A diet of 3,000 people named Fredrick Augustus king and he became Augustus the 3rd.
 * France did not like that Fredrick was king, so they formed an alliance with Sardinia-Savoy and Spain and declared war on Austria.
 * On November 1738, France and Austria signed the Treaty of Vienna in which Fredrick was named king, and France accepted the Progmatic sanction.


 * Partitions of Poland- 1772, 1793, 1795 **



1st partition-
 * After Russia won a war against the Ottoman Turks in 1768, Austria was afraid of going to battle with Russia.
 * Fredrick the 2nd of Prussia wanted to subside the relation between Russia and Austria by shifting the direction of where Russia should expand to Poland.
 * In 1772, Russia, Prussia and Austria signed a Treaty where Poland would give up a lot of its land to these countries.
 * Poland lost half of its population, and 1/3 of its land. Russia received lands east from the Dvina and Dneiper rivers. Prussia gained Royal Prussia except Gdansk and gained Great Poland. Austria received Little Poland, Western Podolia.

2nd partition- 20 years later, Poland wanted to strengthen itself so it created a new liberal constitution. This created the Confederation of Targowia which stated that Russia should come into Poland and restore its original power of being???? So in 1973, Russia along with Prussia sent troops into Poland which created the Second Partition. Now Russia received Lithuanian Belorussia and western Ukraine. Prussia received Gdansk, Turon, great Poland.



Third Partition- Because of this 2nd partition, an officer, Tadeuz Kosciuzko did not like this so he led a revolt. Both Russia and Prussia intervened against him. After this, Poland was again divided into smaller parts and Austria, Russia and Prussia acquired land. Russia received Courland, all Lithuanian territory east of the NemanRiver, and the rest of the Volhynian Ukraine; Prussia acquired the remainder of Mazovia, and Austria took the remaining section of Little Poland, from Kraków northeastward to the arc of the Northern Bug.



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**World War One**-
 * During this time many Polish people in the battlefield wore different army uniforms- some Russian, Austrian and German because of the partition plans.
 * In 1915, the Central powers occupied many parts of Russian Poland.
 * After World War One, in the Treaty of Versailles, Poland was re-created from German lands.

On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland using battleships like the Schleswig-Holestein. Hitler used the blitzkrieg strategy where he bombed early on in the battle to destroy sources of transportation and importance. Once Hitler conquered Poland, he set up concentration camps in Poland to kill off his enemies. This invasion starts World War two. Hitler wanted to conquer Poland to create a Polish Corrider that would link Germany to East Prussia since Germany owned it.
 * World War Two **


 * Cold War **
 * There were many strikes in Poland to stop Communistic control including:
 * __ Poznan 1956- __ Workers rioted because they wanted better working conditions. The government stopped the riot. Wokers council came about from the revolt.
 * __ Polish 1970’s protests __ - People protested because of an increase in food prices. The government stopped the riot by making the food prices decrease.
 * __ Gdansk 1981 __ – riot at a shipping yard because workers wanted higher pay and wanted to legalize **Solidarity** unions. The government arrested Solidarity leaders. The Pope at the time supported this strike because he was Polish. The government shot down this riot. Solidarity leader Lech Walesa became president of Poland.
 * ** Solidarity ** - union of shipyard workers who wanted better pay, wages and working conditions.

Timeline: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/country_profiles/1054724.stm http://www.history-timelines.org.uk/places-timelines/34-timeline-polish-history.htm

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