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Initially, at the end of World War II in 1945, Poland also gained control of the current southern border strip of the Kaliningrad Oblast, with Polish administration organized in the towns of Gierdawy and Iławka, however, the area was eventually annexed by the Soviet Union and included within the Kaliningrad Oblast by December 1945. [129]
Berend, Iván T. Decades of Crisis: Central and Eastern Europe before World War II (1998), comparisons with other countries; Biskupski, M. B. The History of Poland. Greenwood, 2000. 264 pp. online edition; The Cambridge History of Poland, (2 vols., Cambridge University Press, 1941) covers 1697–1935; Davies, Norman. God's Playground. A History ...
The world powers in 1939, before the start of World War II. January 25 A uranium atom is split for the first time at Columbia University in the United States. [49] January 27 Hitler orders Plan Z, a 5-year naval expansion programme intended to provide for a huge German fleet capable of defeating the British Royal Navy by 1944.
One of the most famous of these planned destructions was the razing of Warsaw, the capital of Poland. [1] While extensively damaged by the failed Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and Warsaw Uprising , the city later underwent a planned demolition by German forces under order from Adolf Hitler and high officials within the Nazi government.
The borders of Poland resembled the borders of the German-Russian gains in World War 2, with the exception of the city of Bialystok. This is called the Curzon line. The small area of Trans-Olza, which had been annexed by Poland in late 1938, was returned to Czechoslovakia on Stalin's orders.
End of World War II in Europe: June 18–21: Trial of the Sixteen Polish Underground leaders in Moscow July 10–25: Augustów roundup of anti-Communist partisans August 2: Potsdam Conference concludes between the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States: August 11: Kraków pogrom with one dead victim 1946: January 20
The official name of the state was the Republic of Poland.In the Polish language, it was referred to as Rzeczpospolita Polska (abbr. RP), with the term Rzeczpospolita being a traditional name for the republic when referring to various Polish states, including the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (considered to be the First Polish Republic, Pierwsza Rzeczpospolita), and later, the current Third ...
Map of places in Poland that lost their city status. The following is a list of towns of Poland which lost their town status. 21st century; 20th century: 1985– 1977 – 1975 – 1973 – 1972 – 1959 – 1957 – 1956 – 1954 – 1950 – 1948 – 1946 – 1945 – 1939 – 1934 – 1932 – 1928 – 1921 – 1919 – 1915 – 1914