https://padlet.com/asbaker/5uz13ks664n2 en-us 2016-09-18 23:04:04 UTC 2016-09-19 00:11:12 UTC hello@padlet.com mgoodall1 https://padlet.com/asbaker/5uz13ks664n2/wish/124598038 Because of its location in Europe Poland was a part of the territory that was invaded by the U.S.S.R. After WWII the Soviet Union installed a communist party in poland that stayed in power for 50 years.]]> 2016-09-18 23:18:48 UTC https://padlet.com/asbaker/5uz13ks664n2/wish/124598038 mgoodall1 https://padlet.com/asbaker/5uz13ks664n2/wish/124598738 picture shows polands struggle in politics and their struggle for their rights and their dignity ]]> 2016-09-18 23:32:13 UTC https://padlet.com/asbaker/5uz13ks664n2/wish/124598738 mgoodall1 https://padlet.com/asbaker/5uz13ks664n2/wish/124599601 Poland was the first country to resist NAZI aggression and no country suffered more from World War II than Poland, although destruction in the Soviet bUnion and Yugoslsvia as also massive. Warsaw was of course the greatest example of this. The city was badly damaged during the initial German invasion, both by aerial and artillery bombardment (1939). Warsaw held out for 3 weeks, much of it under heavy German bombbadment. And then much of what was still standing was destroyed in the Warsaw Uprising (1944) and subsequent German demolition. The devestation extended to other cities and towns throughout the country]]> 2016-09-18 23:47:30 UTC https://padlet.com/asbaker/5uz13ks664n2/wish/124599601 mgoodall1 https://padlet.com/asbaker/5uz13ks664n2/wish/124599653  Enormous damage was done by the German Army and Air Force during the initial campaign (September 1939). This was allmost entirely in western Poland. The Soviets invaded eastern Poland (September 17). Little damage occurred because the despirited Polish Army offered little resistance. In addition to the fighting, there was also organized German plunnder, The Germans invaded the Soviet Union (June 1941), this meant the area of eastern Poland annexed by the Soviets. Again the physical damage was relatively limited because the Whermacht pushed east so rapidly. There was, however, extensive damage as the Wehrmacht pursued anti-partisan campaigns. Additional damage occurred in fighting between Poles and Ukranians. And as the Red Army pushed into Poland, the Wehrmacht conducted a burned earth program of destroying everything of any value]]> 2016-09-18 23:48:28 UTC https://padlet.com/asbaker/5uz13ks664n2/wish/124599653 mgoodall1 https://padlet.com/asbaker/5uz13ks664n2/wish/124599950 During the course of the 1960s and ’70s, however, the bipolar struggle between the Soviet and American blocs gave way to a more-complicated pattern of international relationships in which the world was no longer split into two clearly opposed blocs]]> 2016-09-18 23:53:08 UTC https://padlet.com/asbaker/5uz13ks664n2/wish/124599950