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Tehran Conference (1943)
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Treaty of Zgorzelec (1950)
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Two Plus Four Treaty (1990)
German-Polish Border Treaty (1990)
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Territorial changes of Germany
The Treaty between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Republic of Poland on the confirmation of the frontier between them was signed on November 14, 1990 and entered into force with the exchange of the instruments of ratification on 16 January 1992.[1]

It affirmed that the Oder-Neisse Line — as defined by the Allies of World War II in the Potsdam Agreement of 1945, the Treaty of Zgorzelec of 1950 between the GDR and People's Republic of Poland, and the Warsaw Treaty of 1970 between the FRG (West Germany) and the People's Republic of Poland — was the border between the Government of the reunified German state and the Republic of Poland. It was signed just over one month after the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany restored full sovereignty to the reunited Germany and specified in article 1.2 that full sovereignty was conditional on "united Germany and the Republic of Poland [confirming] the existing border between them in a treaty that is binding under international law".[2]

The signing of a treaty between the FRG and Poland recognising Oder-Neisse Line as the border under international law was also one of the terms of the Unification Treaty between the FRG and the GDR that was signed and went into effect on 3 October 1990.[3] Poland also wanted this treaty to end the ambiguity that had surrounded the border issue since 1945.[4]

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Polish nation was led by a series of strong rulers who converted the Poles to Christianity, created a strong Central European state and integrated Poland into European culture.
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Poland is a country in Central Europe, east of Germany. Generally speaking, Poland is an unbroken plain reaching from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Carpathian Mountains in the south. Within that plain, terrain variations generally run in bands from east to west.
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Borders of Poland are 3582 kilometers long.[1] The neighboring countries are Germany to the west, the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south, Ukraine and Belarus to the east, and Lithuania and the Russian province of Kaliningrad Oblast to the northeast.
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Treaty of Versailles (1919) was a peace treaty which officially ended World War I between the Allied and Associated Powers and Germany. It was signed exactly 5 years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, one of the events that triggered the start of the war.
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The Silesian Uprisings (German: Aufstände in Oberschlesien; Polish: Powstania śląskie
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Polish Corridor (German: Polnischer Korridor; Polish: Korytarz gdański, województwo pomorskie
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At the beginning of World War II, significant Polish areas were annexed by Nazi Germany.

Invading Poland in 1939, the Third Reich annexed the lands the German Empire had ceded to a reconstituted Poland in 1919–1922 by the Treaty of Versailles, including the
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After the Soviet invasion of Poland following the corresponding German invasion that marked the start of World War II in 1939, the Soviet Union annexed eastern parts (so-called "Kresy") of the Second Polish Republic, totaling 201,015 km² and a population of 13.299 million.
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Administrative division pf Polish territories during WWII can be divided into several phases, when territories of the Second Polish Republic were administered first by Nazi Germany (in the west) and Soviet Union (in the east), then by Nazi Germany (following Operation Barbarossa)
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Tehran Conference (codenamed EUREKA) was the meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill between November 28 and December 1, 1943 in Tehran, Iran.
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Yalta Conference, sometimes called the Crimea Conference and codenamed the Argonaut Conference, was the wartime meeting from February 4, 1945 to February 11, 1945 between the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union —
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Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof, the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm Hohenzolern, in Potsdam, Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945. The participants were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
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The territorial changes of Poland after World War II were very extensive.

The Second World War is usually dated from the German invasion of Poland, 1 September 1939. Both Britain and France had given guarantees to protect Poland from attack.
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The Treaty of Zgorzelec (Full title The Agreement Concerning the Demarcation of the Established and the Existing Polish-German State Frontier, also known as the Treaty of Görlitz and Treaty of Zgorzelic
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The Treaty of Warsaw (German: Warschauer Vertrag) is a treaty between West Germany and the People's Republic of Poland. It was signed on December 7, 1970 and ratified by the German Bundestag on May 17, 1972.
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The Treaty on the Final Settlement With Respect to Germany, (or the Two Plus Four Agreement)[1] was negotiated in 1990 between the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), the German Democratic Republic (GDR), and the Four Powers which occupied Germany at the
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Curzon Line was a demarcation line proposed in 1920 by British Foreign Secretary Lord Curzon of Kedleston as a possible armistice line between Poland to the west and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR) to the east during the Polish-Soviet War of
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The Oder-Neisse line (Polish: Granica na Odrze i Nysie Łużyckiej, German: Oder-Neiße-Linie) marked the border between German Democratic Republic and Poland between 1950 and 1990.
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Kresy, meaning Outskirts or Borderlands, was firstly used to define the Polish eastern frontier. First, the Borderlands referred to the eastern frontiers of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
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Kresy Zachodnie - (Polish for "Western Borderlands") - term used by Poles, mostly in historical context, to refer to western parts of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, that, after Partitions of Poland were annexed by Prussia.
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"Recovered Territories", "Regained Territories" or "Western and Northern Territories" (Polish: Ziemie Odzyskane, Ziemie Zachodnie i Północne
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Former eastern territories of Germany (German: ehemalige deutsche Ostgebiete) describes collectively those provinces or regions east of the Oder-Neisse line which were internationally recognised as part of the territory of
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Zaolzie   (help info ) (Czech: Zaolší (Zaolží), Polish: Zaolzie, Śląsk zaolziański
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