Table of Contents
Poland: A Brief Overview
Emergence of the Polish state . . .
15C Union with Lithuania
Polish Heroes: Jan III Sobieski
Birth of the Sejm
16C Golden Age
Polish Heroes: Nicolaus Copernicus
The Krakow Renaissance
Contrast to 17C Absolutism
The Liberum Veto
Decline . . .
. . . and Partition
Occupation (1795 - 1918)
The French Interlude: Poland and Napoleon
The Congress of Vienna
Polish Heroes: Fryderyk Szopen (Chopin)
Polish Heroes: Marie Curie
Poland and WWI
New Borders . . .
. . . and War with Russia
Jo`zef Pil`sudski
A Short Independence
WW2 Division
Katyn Forest Massacre
Poland under Germany
1945 “Liberation”
Poland as a Soviet Satellite
PPT Slide
Stalinism
1956 Uprisings
PPT Slide
Solidarnosc
Solidarity’s Victory
Transitions to a Free Market
Poland’s Future in Europe
Polish Heroes: Pope John Paul II
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