Poland

Zloty is the Polish currency

Yes.

Poland entered Schengen 21 December 2007

There are many landmarks in Poland. Depends on region it could be Wawel Castle in Kraków (Cracow), it could be Main Square in Kraków, one of the largest public squares in Europe, Bledowska desert - the largest desert in Europe. There is many more fascinating places ;)

It could be because of the stereoptype about Polish people being stupid and stupid people therefore being invariably racist and hatefull.

Or you could get to know some and make up your own mind.

Poland dates back to 6th century with it's very first settlement, city of Gniezno. However it remained a pagan country until 966 A.D. when it was christened on occasion of Mieszko I being baptized before getting married.

(Source: http://www.staypoland.com/poland-history.htm)

I would say that the most important artifact is a soviet union statue that is splattered with red paint. When the Poles broke free from the communist control they splattered red paint on the statue, because that is the color of their flag other than white.

The first German built ghetto was in occupied Poland at Piotrków Trybunalski in October 1939. The Germans went on to establish at least 1,000 ghettos for Jews. The Warsaw and Lodz ghettos were established in 1940.

White is for purity of hearts, red stands, due to different sources, for: blood shed in protection of the country, courage and gallantry, ability to love (last one quite rarely, first two often go as one).

Poland has been invaded many many times, but I'm assuming you mean the WWII invasion.

For Germany, it was just the next logical step of their European expansion plan. They'd actually already invaded and taken control of the Czech territory before they moved into Poland.

For Russia, it was a good oppourtunity to cooperate with Germany and settle what would supposively become the new Russian-German border.

The military strategy Hitler used when invading Poland is called blitzkrieg or "lightning war". This strategy uses a heavy concentration of force, usually to the surprise of the opposing group.

I'll try help you out. England and Poland had a kind of alliance, If Germany choose to invade Poland, we will defend them, the English government said. and so they did. At that time, Poland was a very poor country, which may have plaid a role... however, I suggest that you look it up at the internet to "digg deeper". PS: if you come from England or something like that, I know you will learn more about this topic in yr.9 or 10. Good luck, and best wishes learning!

Hitler invaded Poland on Friday the 1st of September 1939, and war was declared by Neville Chamberlain two days later.

Around 3 million Polish Jews were murdered by the German occupiers. It is estimated that there had been around 3.3 to 3.5 million Polish Jews in 1939. The Germans however used a different definition of what made someone a Jew; hence the 3 million killed could be out of a total of up to 4 million. It is generally held that 300,000 survived the Holocaust. Many emigrated to Israel and America after the war.

In 1772, 1793 and 1795 Poland was divided up ('partitioned') by Russia, Prussia and Austria. (Austria did not take part in the 1793 partition). Poland was therefore completely split up between three countries by 1795. Napoleon created the Grand Duchy of Warsaw in 1807, and at the end of the Napoleonic Wars, a small Kingdom of Poland was created in 1815 with the Russian tsar as king. Technically, it was supposed to be a personal union only, but after the Poles rose in rebellion against the tsar in 1830-31 Poland was quite simply annexed to Russia in 1831. Poland was revived in 1918. Joncey

In the final year leading up to the outbreak of World War II, relations between Great Britain and Germany deteriorated significantly. After the Munich Conference of 1938 and the German invasion of Poland in 1939, Great Britain's principal leaders finally recognized that the aggressive intentions of Germany went well beyond their publicly stated goals; Great Britain began to prepare for war, while Germany continued its already furiously-paced planning.

Over 38 million people currently live in Poland, which is very homogeneous ethnically: 97.8% of people residing in Poland declare that they speak Polish at home and 96.7% claim Polish nationality. This homogeneity is a result of the radically altered borders after the World War II, the subsequent migrations, ethnic cleansing of the German population, and deportations ordered by the Soviet authorities, who wished to remove the sizable Polish minorities from Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine and deportations of Ukrainians from Poland.

There are 56 million people of Polish descent in the world.

The Poles are European of Indo-European and Slavonic roots.

2nd largest Slavic nation in the world (after Russians).

First largest nation of Western-Slavonic group (with i.e. Czechs and Slovaks).

The Poles speaks Polish language (slavonic group).

The Poles are said to be related with tribe of ancient Sarmats.

2.9-3.0 Million Polish Jews were killed in the Holocaust. There were numerous other pogroms and attacks on the Jewish community in Poland throughout the centuries, especially between 1795 and 1919 when the country of Poland was occupied by Prussia/Germany, Austria/Austria-Hungary, and Russia.

The German occupiers set-up labour, concentration and death camps in occupied Poland. The Nazi created the death camps of Auschwitz II (Auschwitz-Birkenau), Chełmno, Bełżec, Majdanek, Sobibór and Treblinka. The Nazi German also created many concentration camps such as Auschwitz I.

Well, you may know why he got in prison, but I'll tell you so you would understand. Hitler copied Italy's fascists in appearance and also had adopted some programmatical points, and in 1923, Hitler wanted to emulate Mussolini's "March on Rome" by staging his own "Campaign in Berlin". This is also known as the "Beer Hall Putsch" (sometimes as the "Hitler Putsch" or "Munich Putsch"). It wasn't very successful, the police dispersed them. Sixteen NSDAP members were killed. After that, he was soon arrested for high treason. During Hitler's trial, he was given almost unlimited time to speak, and his popularity soared as he voiced nationalistic sentiments in his defence speech. A Munich personality became a nationally known figure. On 1 April 1924, Hitler was sentenced to five years' imprisonment. He was pardoned and released from jail in December 1924, as part of a general amnesty for political prisoners. So no one knew it in that time, that Hitler would want to run the world someday. He attacked Poland in 1939 to have more provinces, and it was way after the Beer Hall Putsch.

The distance between the above mentioned places is 7430km approximately. The distance is straight path from one place to another place. There might be slight difference between the actual distance and the above mentioned distance because of the route chosen.