Slavic 290
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Updated: 11 Jan 2018
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Created bySari Grossman
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966-Poland accepts Christianity from Rome (versus greek orthodox from Byzantine)
-Slavic tribes from Asia migrate
-Germany invaded in terror and diplomatic solution was to convert1138-Fragmentation of Poland
-Due to king saying everyone should be kings1226-Konrad Mazowiecki invites Teutonic Knights to Christianize Prussians
-Prussians= Baltic tribe
-Teutonic knights took over government and name of country
-Becomes mostly German state- fuel for Hitler much later on because he wanted to connect West & east germany, poland said no & WWII starts1240- Mongol Invasion
-Poland untouched1320- Fragmentation of Poland ends (under Wladyslaw Lokietek)
-1320-1569 Poland is multiethnic and has freedom of religion1385- Polish-Lithuanian dynastic union (end of Plast and beginning of Jagiellonian dynasty)
-Constant wars with Teutonic knights
-Poland 3x size after this, unified1569- Polish-Lithuanian political and administrative union (Union of Lublin)
-Lithuanian principality 2x as big as poland
-Now federal, and unified state1572- Zygmunt August Dies (no offspring so) free royal elections begin (end of Jagiellonian dynasty)
-Poland has democracy but only top 2% vote1772- First Partition
-Poland in shamble until 1795 after many wars, other powers like Prussia looking to gain control1683-Sweeds Invade & Poland never recovers
-Christian nations push farther south and stop Islam expansion1792-Second Partition1794- Kosciusko Insurrection1795- Third partiiton1830- November Uprising (1830-1831)
-Discrimination against native polish culture
-Peasants stuck to land in form of slavery-ended in 1863 by Russia1863- January Uprising1918- Poland regains Independence
-Poland industrialization thrives
-1919- Psusky invades soviet union to rebuild Poland the way it was
-other empires fall apart1939- Germany and Soviet Union invade poland1940-Battle of England, Battle Motekasino
-1940-1968 Nothing in Poland can happen without approval from Moscow1944- Warsaw Uprising
-Propaganda SOng1945- Yalta Conference1956, 1968, 1970, 1976 strikes & protests in Poznan, Warsaw, Gdansk, Radom respectively1980- nation-wide
strikes and
protests & formation of Solidarity Independent trade Unions1981- martial law imposed and solidarity illegalized- al arrested1983-martial law (direct control over civilian functions) lifted
-communism cannot save economy1989- Round table talks at the end of PRL
-3rd republic starts1999- Poland joins NATO2004- Poland joins EU -Poland rechristianized
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