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1999- Poland becomes an official and full member of Nato. In fact, Poland provided support in the war against terrorism after the attack in the World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2001, also known as 9/11.
2005- the end of Aleksander’s presidency as Lech Kazcynski, from the conservative Law and Justice Party, wins the presidency.

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- Polish voters vote against Communists and chose Solidarity candidates.
- Lech Walesa elected president
- Market reforms established, which includes large-scale privasation
- By mid-1990s the economy was improving, but many Poles were not happy about the pace of the economic progress.
- In the elections of 1995, Lech Welesa was voted out of office in favor of a former Communist, Aleksander Kwaniewski

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- Poland witnesses economic prosperity based on foreign loans
- US presidents Nixon, Ford, and Carter visit Poland

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-Marital Law is lifted and an amnesty law is created for political crimes
- The Polish Round Table Talk agreement: the polish government, including military leader, General Jaruzelski, discuss about the legalizing Solidarity. Thus, in April 1989, Jaruzelski agree to legalize Solidarity and hold the first free election since Communist power took over. This signifies as the collapse of the communist party in Poland.

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-Solidarity is outlawed and replaced by Martial Law
-10,000 people are arrested; 6,000-10,000 people emigrate; 9 people are killed when police attack striking miners in Silesia
- Period of time from December 13, 1981 to July 22, 1983
- restriction of normal life in order to crush polictical opposition

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There were many strikes and riots due to working conditions, unfair wage, inflation in pricing, and censorship. Many were killed and 1,000's were injured. In addition, many of these protests were also caused by an increase of food prices and other everyday items. For example, the food price riots in Gdańsk took place in 1970. These protest were suppressed and led to  Edward Gierek to become party leader.

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-formerly known as the Treaty of Friendship
-Founded in 1955, but was dissolved 1991
-  included the Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria
-Commander: Ivan Konev(first) and Pyotr Lushev(last)
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-Poland becomes a Communist People's Republic due to a rigged election; communists were given 80.1% of the vote  and 394 of the 444 seats in the Legislative Sejm.
-The elections were characterized by violence.

-Bolesław Bierut

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1980: Interfactory Strike Committee (Evalia)

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1980: Interfactory Strike Committee (Evalia)

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-Polish workers at the Gdansk shipyard go on strike
-led to the emergence of the Solidarity trade Union
-under union leader Lech Walesa
- 1980s, industrial production declines as foreign debt risises to more than $40 billion

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The Catholic Church pave the way for fall of communism     1989 (Lily)

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The Catholic Church pave the way for fall of communism     1989 (Lily)

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-Mazowiecki becomes the first non-Communist Polish prime minister since 1946.

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-The Polish communists rejected the idea of Poland’s independence, and thus worked against their own state.

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-Polish industrial workers protesting against Polish communist leadership and the Soviet bloc, which then resulted in the establishment of a new Polish regime led by liberal communists Władysław Gomułka.
-More than 50 people were killed

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-This completed Poland's transition from a communist party rule to a Western-style liberal democratic political system. The last post-Soviet troops left Poland on 18 September 1993. After ten years of democratic consolidation, Poland joined OECD in 1996, NATO in 1999 and the European Union in 2004.