First World War

• Origins of World War I

• The course of World War I

• The Russian Revolutions of 1917

• The Polish case in 1914-1915

• The Polish case in the years 1916-1918

• Central Powers in 1918-1919

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The world in the interwar period

• Versailles system

• Fascism in Italy

• Nazism in Germany

• Communism in the USSR

• Europe on the brink of World War II

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Second Republic

• Regaining independence by Poland

• Battle for the Western Frontier

• Battle for the eastern border

• Constitution of March 1921

• The society of the Second Polish Republic

• The May Coup and its effects

• The first period of Sanation rule

• The second period of Sanacja rule

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World War II

• The aggression of Germany and the USSR against Poland in 1939

• Poland under two occupations

• The government of the Republic in exile

• Polish Underground State

• Expansion of the USSR in 1939-1940

• World War II in 1940

• The Battle of Britain and the situation in the Balkans (1940-1941)

• German-Soviet War

• Anders' Army and Polish-Soviet relations

• World War II in 1942-1945

• The Grand Coalition during World War II

• Polish communists in the USSR during World War II

• Operation Tempest and the Warsaw Uprising

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The world after World War II

• Countries of the Soviet bloc after World War II

• The beginning of the Cold War

• Germany after World War II

• USSR after World War II

• War in Indochina in 1946-1954

• Korean War in 1950-1953

• USSR after Stalin's death

• Uprising in Hungary in 1956

• Revolution in Cuba and the Missile Crisis

• Prague Spring 1968

• The Vietnam War in 1961-1975

• The Khmer Rouge experiment

• Autumn of Nations in 1989

• The collapse of the USSR

• The breakup of Yugoslavia

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Poland after World War II

• Poland in the years 1944-1947

• Stalinism in Poland

• Polish October 1956

• Gomułka's politics and the events of March 1968

• December events 1970

• Edward Gierek's Decade

• Epic of Solidarity (1980-1981)

• Martial law and its consequences

• The Round Table and the 1989 elections

• The Republic of Poland in the years 1989-2006

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