Polandball/History

== Ancient Times ==
Polish territory was firstly considered inhabited by the Civitas Schinesghe, a West Slavic tribe, in the ninth century. Its story is covered under a thick layer of mystery and legends.
It is known that around 920 AD, Goplansball subordinated to it.
Taking advantage fall of the  Great Moraviaball decided to expand, increasing its territory three times, and began to build strongholds Later, the Goplansball arrived and inhabited modern Kuyavia-Pomeraniaball. It is known that around 920 AD, Goplansball subordinated to the Polansball. Taking advantage of the fall of the  Great Moraviaball, the Polansball decided to expand, increasing its territory three times, and began to build strongholds.
== The Kingdom of Poland (960-1569)==
By the 10th Century, Polandball began to unify into a distinct political state under the Piast Dynastyball. The first Polish ruler, Mieszko I, adopted Catholicism as the state religion, replacing Slavic Pagan tradition in 966.
In 1025 AD, the Duchy of Polandball was crowned as Kingdom of Polandball.
In 1038 AD, it was raided by Duchy of Bohemiaball, who robbed it terribly and almost beat it to death.
In 1040 AD, it allied with Kyivan Rusball against Mazovia and then began to reclaim their lands.
 Kingdom of Polandball quarreled with Kievan Rusball, then joined Red Rusball to itself in the year 1077.
In 1117 AD he began military operations, starting with the raid on Old Russiaball, in order to secure the area, and regained Gdańsk and Pomeraniaball.
With the testament of Bolesław III Wrymouth enacted in 1138, the kingdom was split into 5 principalities within his 4 sons.
From the 12th to the 14th century, First Kingdom of Polandball was in a long period of fragmentation (1138–ca. 1320. During the fragmentation, First Kingdom of Polandball lost Silesiaball and Pomeraniaball. After the re-unitary United Kingdom of Polandball started to conquer the east territory, United Kingdom of Polandball gained a terrain of today Ukraineball's clay, including the cityball of Lvivball.
During Middle Ages, it participated in the crusades by Teutonic Orderball against Norse and Novgorodian pagans. In the 14th century, Polandball is one of the few countryballs that is not affected by the Black Death. The avoidance of the epidemic is attributed to Casimir the Great's decision to shut down Polandball's borders.
In 1321, the United Kingdom of Polanball sued  Teutonic Orderball for unlawful seizure of Pomereliaball, and the judge ordered the land and enormous money to be returned. Teutonic Orderball did not agree and the case was eventually suspended.
In 1326, it was attacked by Teutonic Orderball, which led to a truce, UKPball used the truce for the raid on Brandenburgball, and decided to dominate  Duchy of Masoviaball children, who signed an alliance with a Teutonic Orderball. In 1331, when the truce ended, Teutonic Orderball declared war on it.
The Jagiellon dynastyball was established under Lithuanian Grand Duke Władysław II Jagiełło, forming a union between the Kingdom of Polandball and the Grand Duchy of Lithuaniaball. This, however, was a series of alliances, and should not be mistaken for the future Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealthball. Within the Jagiellon Dynasty, Polandball also began developing a feudal system. The passing of the Nihil Novi act also brought about a period called the "Golden Liberty." The Renaissance brought about new ideas. Nicolaus Copernicus, the discovery of the heliocentric theory, was a citizen of Poland-Lithuaniaball. Due to Papal Statesball thinking that the Earth was the center of the Universe, the theory took time to become finally official.
== Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569-1795)==
When in 1569 Polandball finally reached a personal union with the Grand Duchy of Lithuaniaball since a century of tentatives, a new countryball born: the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealthball became the most powerful and biggest East European countryball.
The Commonwealthball conquered the Baltic territory, inhabited mainly by the Livonian Orderball, and won against Ottomanball in 1699 in the Polish-Ottoman War. This war, unfortunately, weakened the country and during the1720s the Polish Succession War made the situation even more difficult. The result was the First Partition of Polandball, in 1772, and the second Partition, in 1794, where Austrian Empireball, Russian Empireball, and Kingdom of Prussiaball splited the territory of Poland-Lithuaniaball. A independent Polish government was wiped out for more than 120 years.
== Era of Occupation (1795-1918)==
The Partitions of Polandball marked the beginning of over a century of foreign occupation. Almost immediately, Poles rebelled against their partitioners, especially around the early 19th century.
In 1806, Napoleonic Franceball started invading the Kingdom of Prussiaball and created ea Duchy of Warsawball as a puppet for getting help to spread the Revolution. But this lasted just for eight years after which Polandball was given to the Russian Empireball.
As the Spring of Nations swept Europe, Polandball once again took up arms in the Polish Uprising of 1848 against Prussiaball's rule. Initially, Poles resisted with peaceful civil disobedience. However, when Prussiaball sent its military to suppress this, a full-scale uprising began. After several battles, Prussiaball managed to completely suppress the uprising and the Russian Empireball more integrally incorporated the Grand Duchy of Posenball.
== Independence and the Second Polish Republic (1918-39)==
In 1914, World War I started and German Empireball fought Russian Empireball. In this mode, Congress Polandball stopped being a Russian puppet and became a German puppet for a couple of years, until the Germans lost. Second Polish Republicball declared independence and gained some land from German Empireball, which splitted the German land to two and forming the "Polish Corridor" (Which is a reason Nazi Germanyball was so angry of Polandball.)
 Soviet Unionball decided to retake the Polish land after World War I, causing the Polish-Soviet War. This war quickly ended with the defeat of Russians (that got Ukrainian SSRball as additional land) and the victory of Poles.
As a result of the Munich Agreement, Czechoslovakiaball ceded the tiny Zaolzie regionball to Polandball in 1938, which had been fought over briefly in the Polish-Czechoslovak War.
== World War II (1939-45) ==
In 1933, Weimar Republicball fell into the evil hand of Nazi Germanyball (very infamous for its anti-semitic actions) who decided to invade in 1939 Second Polish Republicball and the Free City of Danzigball to retake the land lost during World War I. The Poles fought bravely, yet with the USSRball invading as well from the East, the fall of Warsawball on 28 September was ultimately inevitable. Poland was wiped out for another 6 years.
Under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Polandball was split into two occupation zones between Nazi Germanyball and the USSRball. Subsequently, Soviet authorities purged Polish prisoners and military officers in the Katyn Massacre and deported hundreds of thousands of Polish civilians.
After weeks of fighting, the Polish saw the hopeless situation of the Two-Front War. They fled over the Balkans to Franceball and UKball and reorganized to keep offering resistance to Nazi Germanyball.
When Nazis attacked UKball the Polish soldiers in exile helped, with his trained pilots, to fight the invaders. He also helped the Allies at the Normandy, Monte Cassino and Market Garden. (where they were they only country to successfully take monte casino... )
Underground resistance fighters in occupied Polandball established the Armia Krajowa to fight against the occupying Germans. Considered one of the largest resistance movements of the war, Armia Krajowa effectively functioned as an entire underground state, and committed key acts of sabotage and targeted assassination.
 Nazi Germanyball built six extermination camps during the Holocaust, which included the infamous Treblinka, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Majdanek camps. The camps located within Polandball served as the 3rd Reich's largest, and in total 3 million Polish Jews along with a further 2.8 million ethnic Poles were murdered.
Eventually, Polandball was "liberated" by the incoming Soviet Army, though the German occupation left a completely shattered nation in its wake. Of all countryballs in World War II, Polandball suffered the highest proportion of casualties with relation to its population.
== Communist Rule (1945-89)==
main article: PR Polandball
The former Second Polish Republicball in exile even got his own zone of occupation inside of the British zone in Emsland, near the Dutch border with West Germanyball.
But then the allies betrayed him and withdraw his recognition as the legitimate Republic of Poland. Only Irelandball, Spainball, Cubaball and Vaticanball recognized the exiled government as the real republic.
After the war, Poland took even more land from the dead Nazi Germanyball. The USSRball then set up a provisional communist government in Polandball. By 1952, the PR Polandball was set up as a Soviet satellite state. Despite widespread popular rejection, the PR Polandball ceded its eastern territories to the Soviet Unionball. It could eventually into Warsaw Pact.
In 1978, a Pole, Karol Wojtyla, was elected Pope as Pope John Paul II, it is the first Polish Pope in history.
Turmoil once again arose in the 1980s as the independent trade union Solidarity grew as a major political force. Even under government persecution and the declaration of martial law in 1981, Solidarity gradually eroded PR Polandball's single-party rule. Also contrary to popular belief, in 1986, the first Pole went into space. By 1989, Solidarity triumphed and the first free, democratic elections since the end of World War II were held. The Solidarity movement heralded the collapse of PR Polandball as well as other puppet regimes throughout Eastern Europe.
== Can into Peace Again (1989-Present)==
After the Cold War ended, massive liberalizing reforms took place. Polandball relaxed freedom of press and speech and greatly increased personal freedoms. Initially, as with most other Eastern Bloc countryballs, Polandball's economy slowed down. Polandball became the first post-communist state to reach its pre-1989 levels thanks to an economic boom by 1995.
In 1991, Polandball officially joined NATOball, and in 2004 Polandball has voted to join the EUball.
On March 4, 2020, it got infected with . It is still infected to this moment and it has over 2,000,000 confirmed cases.
In 2022, missiles from the Russo-Ukrainian War landed in East Poland, killing 2 people. It is not sure if they were Ukrainian or Russian. Since the war started, Polandball has been waiting patiently for Russiaball to attack to invoke .