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  1. Interwar period. Silesia tension between the Poles and Germans. In the history of the 20th century, the interwar period (or interbellum) lasted from 11 November 1918 to 1 September 1939 (20 years, 9 months, 21 days) – from the end of World War I (WWI) to the beginning of World War II (WWII).

  2. Silesia, interwar period, nation-states, regiogenesis The years 1918-1945 are unique for the fact that they mark avery brief period in history when the inhabitants of Silesia witnessed considerable changes in virtu-ally every aspect of their lives. The Silesian Wars of the 18th century divided Silesia

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  4. Silesian independence. Silesian independence ( Silesian: Samostanowjyńo Ślůnska; Polish: Niepodległość Śląska) is the political movement for Upper Silesia and Cieszyn Silesia to become a sovereign state . Since the 9th century, Upper Silesia has been part of Greater Moravia, the Duchy of Bohemia, the Piast Kingdom of Poland, again of ...

  5. By that time, too, Germany’s fragile postwar Weimar Republic was under growing threat of collapse. History of Europe - Interwar Years, WWI, WWII: Woodrow Wilson’s vision of a general association of nations took shape in the League of Nations, founded in 1920. Its basic constitution was the Covenant—Wilson’s word, chosen, as he said ...

  6. inter-war period the harm was caused by Poles, but also the memory of harm caused by Germans before 1922 (especially during the Kulturkampf) was still present in the collective memory. During the plebiscite campaign (1920-1921) Upper Silesia was a place of both pro-Polish and pro-German propaganda. The Orędownik Komisarjatu

  7. Jan 15, 2020 · Nation and Loyalty in a German-Polish Borderland: Upper Silesia, 1848—1960 by Brendan Karch For over a decade, historians of Central and Eastern Europe have begun to highlight how the subjects and citizens of states in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries did not always neatly subscribe to the identities projected onto them.

  8. Jul 31, 2018 · The map of new Europe 1918/1919: the challenges of independence for Poland. The day before that momentous Armistice was signed between the Allies and Germany – the conclusion to four years of shattering warfare – one seemingly inconspicuous man, face half-obscured with a heavy moustache, finally returned to Warsaw after spending a year languishing in a German prison.

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