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This is a chronological list of wars in which Poland or its predecessor states of took an active part, extending from the reign of Mieszko I (960–992) to the present. This list does not include peacekeeping operations (such as UNPROFOR, UNTAES or UNMOP), humanitarian missions or training missions supported by the Polish Armed Forces.
The first clashes between Polish and Soviet forces occurred in autumn and winter 1918/1919, but it took a year and a half for a full-scale war to develop. [ 4 ] The Western powers considered any significant territorial expansion of Poland, at the expense of Russia or Germany, to be highly disruptive to the post-World War I order.
Tadeusz Piotrowski, Professor of Sociology at the University of New Hampshire has provided a reassessment of Poland's losses in World War II. Polish war dead included 5,150,000 victims of Nazi crimes against ethnic Poles and the Holocaust, the treatment of Polish citizens by occupiers included 350,000 deaths during the Soviet occupation in 1940 ...
Polish–Teutonic War concludes 1444: November 10: Death of Władysław III of Varna 1447: June 25: Coronation of Kazimierz IV Jagiellon: 1454: Thirteen Years' War begins Statutes of Nieszawa: 1466: October 19: Signing of the Second Peace of Toruń concludes the Thirteen Years' War 1473: Almanach cracoviense ad annum 1474 published 1478–1479 ...
War Notes Treaty Result; Polish–Swedish War (1563–1568) Caused by the entrance of Poland–Lithuania in the Northern Seven Years War: Formal peace never signed, however the war ends when John III becomes king.
The Invasion of Poland, [e] also known as the September Campaign, [f] Polish Campaign, [g] and Polish Defensive War of 1939 [h] [13] (1 September – 6 October 1939), was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak Republic, and the Soviet Union, which marked the beginning of World War II. [14]
Between 1921 and 1938, Polish colonists and war veterans were encouraged to settle in the Volhynian and Galician countryside; their number reached 17,700 in Volhynia in 3,500 new settlements by 1939. [45] Between 1934 and 1938, a series of violent and sometimes-deadly [46] attacks against Ukrainians were carried out in other parts of Poland.
List of battles of the Polish-Soviet War by chronology: Battles for Vilnius (1918–1919) (31 December 1918 – 5 January 1919)