In 1454, the leader of the Confederation, Johannes von Baysen ( Jan Bażyński ), formally asked the King of Poland, Casimir IV Jagiellon, to incorporate Prussia into the Kingdom of Poland.

In June 2009, the Conservative Party leader David Cameron sealed a new alliance with the national-conservative Law and Justice ( PiS ) of Poland.

After the war the leader of PSL, Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, returned to Soviet occupied Poland, hoping to recreate the party structures and create anti-communist opposition.

In the latter book, Irving claimed that the plane crash which killed Polish government in exile leader General Władysław Sikorski in 1943 was really an assassination ordered by Winston Churchill, so as to enable Churchill to betray Poland to the Soviet Union.

Each leader had an agenda for the Yalta Conference: Roosevelt asked for Soviet support in the U. S. Pacific War against Japan, specifically invading Japan ; Churchill pressed for free elections and democratic governments in Eastern and Central Europe ( specifically Poland ); and Stalin demanded a Soviet sphere of political influence in Eastern and Central Europe, an essential aspect of the USSR's national security strategy.

The British leader pointed out that the U. K. " could never be content with any solution that did not leave Poland a free and independent state ".

However, he failed to reach any agreement with the French leader, who regarded Kościuszko as a " fool " who " overestimated his influence " in Poland ( letter from Napoleon to Fouché, 1807 ).

After the fall of communism he became a leader of the left-wing Social Democracy of the Republic of Poland, successor to the former ruling Polish United Workers Party, and a co-founder of the Democratic Left Alliance.

* The designation of the party leader was made by the party's congress in the eighteen remaining parties: Austria ( SPÖ ), Bulgaria ( БСП ), Czech Republic ( ČSSD ), Estonia ( SDE ), Finland ( SDP ), Germany ( SPD ), Hungary ( MSZP ), Latvia ( LSDSP ), Lithuania ( SDPL ), Luxembourg ( LSAP ), Malta ( LP ), Poland ( SLD, UP ), Rumania ( PSD ), Slovakia ( SMER-SD ), Slovenia ( SD ), Spain ( PSOE ), Sweden ( SAP ), United-Kingdom / Northern Ireland ( SDLP )

The British historian A. J. P. Taylor's 1961 book The Origins of the Second World War claimed that Hitler had no master-plan for conquering the world and was instead an opportunistic leader seizing whatever chances he had for expansionism, and that the war that started over Poland in 1939 was due to diplomatic miscalculation on the part of the Germans, the British, the French and the Poles instead of being a case of German aggression.

During the Invasion of Poland, he acted as the leader of the light column during the initial operations, before transferring to a platoon command in the Abteilung's second company.

At the subsequent meeting of the Inter-Allied Council in St. James ' Palace in London on 24 September 1941, the governments of Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, and representatives of General Charles de Gaulle, leader of the Free French, unanimously adopted adherence to the common principles of policy set forth in the Atlantic Charter.

Andrzej Zbigniew Lepper ( 13 June 1954 – 5 August 2011 ) was a Polish politician who was the leader of Samoobrona RP ( Self-Defense of the Republic of Poland ) political party.

He was the de facto leader of Poland from 1945 to 1948, and again from 1956 to 1970.

Mordechai Anielewicz: leader of Jewish fighters in Poland

Mordechai Anielewicz: Jewish fighting leader, Łódź, Poland

Because of this and other victories by Wallenstein, Denmark was forced to sue for peace at the Treaty of Lübeck, but this disrupted the balance of power in Europe resulting in Swedish involvement in 1630 under their redoubtable leader, the brilliant King and Field General Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden who had been attempting to dominate the Baltic for the previous ten years in wars with Poland, then a continental power of note.

A charismatic leader, he co-founded Solidarity, the Soviet bloc's first independent trade union, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, and served as President of Poland 1990 – 95.

Józef Piłsudski advocated a democratic, Polish-led federation of independent states — while Roman Dmowski leader of the Endecja movement represented by the National Democratic Party, set his mind on a more compact Poland composed of ethnic Polish or ' polonizable ' territories.

Lenin, leader of the new communist government of Russia, saw Poland as the bridge over which communism would pass into the labor class of a disorganized postwar Germany.

Polish Gen. Antoni Listowski | Listowski ( left ) and Ukrainian leader Symon Petlura, Treaty of Warsaw ( 1920 ) | allied with Poland

The term was again picked up in 1925 by Sanacja, Piłsudski's political party in Poland, and was used by leader Józef Piłsudski as the official title for the leader of the party.

Casimir III the Great () ( 30 April 1310 – 5 November 1370 ) who reigned in 1333 – 1370, was the last King of Poland from the Piast dynasty, the son of King Władysław I the Elbow-high and Duchess Hedwig of Kalisz.

The region came under the control of Władysław I the Elbow-High in 1314, and thus became part of the reunited Poland of which Władyslaw was crowned king in 1320.

Poland had suffered under a plethora of economic calamities, but there were also signs of progress and stabilization ( Władysław Grabski's economically competent government lasted for almost two years ).

* Hedwig of Kalisz ( 1266 – 1339 ), wife of the King Władysław I the Elbow-high and mother of Casimir III of Poland and Elisabeth of Poland.

Hussite theologians dispute in the presence of King Władysław II Jagiełło of Poland

In 1206 Henry and his cousin Duke Władysław III Spindleshanks of Greater Poland agreed to swap the Silesian Lubusz Land against the Kalisz region, which met with fierce protest by Władysław's III nephew Władysław Odonic.

The next year Henry's ally Władysław III Spindleshanks succeeded Leszek I as High Duke ; however as he was still contested by his nephew in Greater Poland, he made Henry his governor at Kraków, whereby the Silesian duke once again became entangled into the dispute over the Seniorate Province.

Her actions promoted the reign of her husband: Upon the death of the Polish High Duke Władysław III Spindleshanks in 1231, Henry also became Duke of Greater Poland and the next year prevailed as High Duke at Kraków.

This union was contracted in connection with the Ascanian efforts to support the Junior Dukes in opposition to King Conrad III of Germany, who supported the deposed High Duke Władysław II as legal ruler of Poland.

Her paternal grandmother Elisabeth of Kujavia was the daughter of King Władysław I the Elbow-high, who had reunited Poland in 1320.

As child monarch of Poland, Jadwiga had at least one relative in Poland ( all her immediate family having remained in Hungary ): her mother's childless uncle, Władysław the White ( d. 1388 ), Prince of Gniewkowo.

There were descendants of superseded daughters of Casimir III of Poland ( d. 1370 ), such as his youngest daughter Anna, Countess of Celje ( d. 1425 without surviving Issue ), and her daughter Anna of Celje ( 1380 – 1416 ) whom Władysław II Jagiełło married next.

* Władysław III Spindleshanks ( 1165 – 1231 ), Duke of Poland

* Władysław III of Poland and Lithuania ( 1424 – 1444 ), Polish name Władysław Warneńczyk, also king of Hungary, known posthumously as Vladislaus III of Varna

* Władysław III of Poland ( disambiguation )

* 1386 – Władysław II Jagiełło ( Jogaila ) is crowned King of Poland.

On 10 November 1444, Murad II defeated the Hungarian, Polish and Wallachian armies under Władysław III of Poland ( also King of Hungary ) and János Hunyadi at the Battle of Varna, which was the final battle of the Crusade of Varna.

After the 1410 Battle of Grunwald, Bishop Heinrich Vogelsang of Warmia surrendered to King Władysław II Jagiełło of Poland, and later with Bishop Henry of Sambia gave homage to the Polish king at the Polish camp during the siege of Marienburg Castle ( Malbork ).

* 1444: Ottoman Empire under Sultan Murad II defeats the Polish and Hungarian armies under Władysław III of Poland and János Hunyadi at the Battle of Varna.

* Władysław Vasa of Poland ( 1595 – 1648 ), Polish Prince, self-proclaimed Grand Duke of Moscow, and future King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

* King Władysław IV Vasa of Poland forbids antisemitic books and printings.