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Giving Poland access to the sea was one of the guarantees proposed by United StatesThe United States of America also referred to as the United States U. America ¹ or the States is a federal republic in central North America, stretching from the Atlantic in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west. It shares land borders with Canada in President Woodrow WilsonWoodrow Wilson Order 28th President Term of Office Tuesday, March 4, 1913 Friday, March 4, 1921 Predecessor William Howard Taft Successor Warren G. Harding Date of Birth Sunday, December 28, 1856 Place of Birth Staunton, Virginia Date of Death Sunday, Feb in his famous Fourteen PointsThe USA's President Woodrow Wilson delivered a speech to Congress on January 8, 1918 outlining Fourteen Points for reconstructing a new Europe following World War I. While many of the points were specific, others were more general, including freedom of th of 1918Events January January 8 President Woodrow Wilson announces his " Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I. February February 3 The Twin Peaks Tunnel begins service in San Francisco as the longest streetcar tunnel in the world (11,920 feet long).. The 13th of Wilson's points was:
The important seaport of Danzig (now Gdansk), which had a largely German population, was made the " Free City of Danzig" under the protection of the League of Nations. To reduce their dependence on Danzig the Poles built a new seaport at Gdynia.
The Corridor was a narrow stretch of land (in some places only 40 km wide), which separated East Prussia from the rest of Germany. Administratively it was a part of the Pomeranian Voivodship. The creation of the Corridor aroused great resentment in Germany, and all postwar German governments refused to recognize the eastern borders agreed on at Versailles.
The German statesman Gustav Stresemann, for instance, known for his policy of conciliation with the western allies, several times declared that Germany's eastern borders would have to be revised, and refused to follow Germany's acknowledgement of its western borders in the Treaty of Locarno of 1925 with a similar declaration with respect to its eastern borders.
In 1933 the Nazi Party led by Adolf Hitler took power in Germany. Hitler at first ostentatiously pursued a policy of rapprochement with Poland, culminating in the Polish-German Non-Aggression Pact of 1934. But following Germany's annexation of Austria in 1938 and most of Czechoslovakia in 1939, the Nazi regime turned its attention to Poland.
In early 1939, the German government intensified demands for the annexation of Danzig, as well as for construction of an extra-territorial road through the Corridor, connecting East Prussia with the rest of Germany. The Polish government rejected these demands, and were backed in March by guarantees from Britain and France, now concerned at German expansionism. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland, and after Poland's defeat, Danzig and the Polish Corridor, as well as much other territory in western Poland, were re-annexed to Germany.
At the Potsdam Conference, 1945, following the German defeat in World War II, Poland's borders were reorganized at the insistence of the Soviet Union, which was in occupation of the whole area. German territories west as far as the Oder-Neisse Line, including the Corridor and Danzig, were annexed to Poland. The German Democratic Republic recognised this border in 1953 and the Federal Republic of Germany did so in 1970.
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