Before meeting in Poland...

Our tasks:

1) Why is studying history important?

2) Topics:

EU/USA/NATO
100 years since the end of WWI
WWII
Spanish Civil War
Balkan War
Changing political borders in the 20th century
The European Project

3) Building Bridges not Walls!

Historia magistra vitae!

1. World War I "The Great War" - lasted from July 28, 1914 to November 11, 1918.

2. World War II - the largest world war in history, lasting from September 1, 1939 to September 2, 1945 (in Europe until May 8, 1945), its military theater occupied almost all of Europe, eastern and south-eastern Asia, northern Africa, part of the Middle East and all the oceans.

* Third Reich attacked Poland.

* On September 17, the Soviet Union attacked Poland.

* Battle of Britain - from July 10 to October 31, 1940 - the first campaign only through aviation.

* Resistance movement in occupied Europe: One of the most effective anti-Nazi and anti-fascist guerrilla organizations in occupied Europe was the Home Army (AK), which is the armed forces of the Polish Underground State subject to the Government of Exile in London.

 

* From August 1 to October 3, 1944, the largest armed resistance movement in Europe took place - the Warsaw Uprising.

* The extermination of Jews (the Holocaust) - the genocide of approximately six million European Jews made during the Second World War by the Third Reich and supported to varying degrees by depend on the allied countries. Roma genocide and mass murders of ethnic Poles and Soviet prisoners of war.

* Death camps - camps established by Nazi Germany in the occupied territories to extermination - Jews, Gypsies, Slavs, Christians, ...

* The capitulation of Germany and the great effects of World War II.

 

* Heroes of the Second World War.

3. New order in Europe - so-called political disaster - Poland and other nations of Eastern Europe under Soviet occupation.

4. Numerous strikes and protests of the Polish population against the communist authorities - bloodily suppressed and restricting the freedom of the nation.

5. Martial law in Poland - 13 December 1981 - 22 July 1983 - censorship, arrests, pacification of the Wujek Mine.

* Victims of Communism (PRL).

6. Pope John Paul II makes a pilgrimage to Poland and supports Poles in the struggle for independence.

7. The overthrow of communism in Poland - round table deliberations, parliamentary elections, the first non-communist government with Tadeusz Mazowiecki as prime minister - 12 IX 1989.

8. War in Bosnia and Herzegovina - a civil war that took place in 1992-1995, which was the most bloody conflict in Europe since the end of World War II.

9. European Union, EU - economic and political union of 28 democratic European countries. The Union was established on November 1, 1993, on the basis of the Maastricht Treaty signed on February 7, 1992 as a result of a long-term process of political, economic and social integration.

10. May 1, 2004 - Poland's accession to the European Union.

11. Future - a civilization of love and life or a civilization of death?

"Great civilizations living at the junction of themselves must polarize, they have to fight because the differences between them are too large." Our Latin Civilization must fail because it is guided by values that prohibit ruthlessness. Today, the values of Latin Civilization that we represent have bowed the tyranny of a foreign civilization of death. Alfi Evans died without medical care"

Professor Feliks Koneczny