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" The great powers and Poland : "
Jan Karski.
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849164
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Great Powers & Poland, 1919-1945
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Karski, Jan,1914-2000.
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The great powers and Poland : : from Versailles to Yalta /\ Jan Karski.
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Anniversary edition.
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Lanham :: Rowman & Littlefield,, [2014]
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xiv, 525 pages ;; 24 cm
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1442226641
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: 144222665X
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: 9781442226647
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: 9781442226654
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Originally published as: The Great Powers & Poland, 1919-1945. Lanham, MD : University Press of America, ©1985.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 491-511) and index.
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Part I: the Great Powers and Poland between the two world wars (1919-1939). The Polish question during World War I -- The Versailles Peace Conference, January 18-June 28, 1919 -- The Polish-Bolshevik War and the Curzon Line -- Poland's eastern, northern, and southern boundaries: a profile of the reborn state -- German-Soviet secret understanding, 1919-1932 -- Poland in the foreign policy of France, 1921-1932 -- Two-faced eastern neighbor, 1921-1932 -- The crucial year, 1933 -- The Polish-German declaration of nonagression, January 26, 1934 -- Franco-Polish relations, 1933-1936 -- The era of appeasement, 1937-1938 -- France and Poland after the remilitarization of the Rhineland -- Hitler's demands on Poland, October 1938-March 1939 -- Soviet-Polish relations, 1934-1938 -- The meaning of the British and French guarantees, March-April 1939 -- Hitler's decision to isolate and crush Poland, April-August 1939 -- Nazi-Polish relations and the problem of Russia -- Hitler-Beck diplomacy: a make-believe world -- Anglo-French-Polish military and economic agreements: commitments in bad faith, 1939 -- War and peace in Soviet diplomacy, 1939 -- The Anglo-Polish Pact of Mutual Assistance: Poland misled, August 25, 1939 -- France, Great Britain, and Russia during the German-Polish Campaign.
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Part II: the Great Powers and Poland during the Second World War (1939-1945). Poland after defeat -- The Polish-Soviet Pact of July 30, 1941 -- The "four freedoms" and the Atlantic Charter -- Soviet-Polish relations, July 30, 1941-April 25, 1943 -- The British-Soviet alliance of May 26, 1942: Chuchill's secret diplomacy -- British and American attitudes toward Poland, 1941-1943 -- The Tehran Conference: Roosevelt's secret diplomacy, November 28-December 1, 1943 -- The entry of the Red Army into Poland, January 1944 -- Churchill's efforts to implement the Polish "formula" -- Roosevelt and the Polish issue on the eve of the 1944 presidential election campaign -- The Warsaw Uprising, August 1-October 2, 1944 -- The Poles entrapped in the homeland and abroad, August-October 1944 -- The aftermath of the October Conference in Moscow -- Prologue to the Yalta Conference -- The Yalta Conference, February 4-11, 1945 -- The meaning of the Yalta agreement: diplomacy and semantics.
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Paris Peace Conference, (1919-1920)
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Yalta Conference(1945 :, I︠A︡lta, Ukraine)
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Paris Peace Conference (1919-1920)
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Yalta Conference.
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Diplomatic relations.
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Politics and government
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Europe, Politics and government, 1918-1945.
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Poland, Foreign relations, 1918-1945.
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Poland, Foreign relations, United States.
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United States, Foreign relations, Poland.
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Europe.
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Poland.
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United States.
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943.8/04
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DK4402.K37 2014
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