Aftermath of World War I in Poland
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Events that happened shortly after the end of World War I in Poland.
Chronology
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October 1920: The Republic of Central Lithuania was created in 1920 following the rebellion of soldiers of the 1st Lithuanian-Belarusian Infantry.
January 1917: Poland was officially established on January 14, 1917 in the territories of the former Congress Kingdom, with the aim of legitimizing the German occupation of Poland.
October 1918: The Polish Liquidation Committee was created on 28 October 1918, with its seat in Kraków. The Committee aimed primarily to maintain order in the territories of the former Austrian part of partitioned Poland during the re-establishment of an independent Poland.
October 1918: The Republic of Zakopane officially declared its independence from Austria-Hungary and, two days later, made itself a "National Council".
November 1918: The Polish National Council and the Czechoslovak Committee concluded an agreement on the demarcation line of Cieszyn Silesia. The Frýdek district and a small part of the Fryštát district was left on the Czech side, the remainder was accorded to the Poles.
November 1918: The Republic of Tarnobrzeg was a short-lived entity, proclaimed in the Polish town of Tarnobrzeg.
March 1922: After a variety of delays, a disputed election took place on January 8, 1922, and the Republic of Central Lithuania was annexed to Poland.
July 1924: In 1924, an additional exchange of territories in Orava occurred, with the territory around Lipnica Wielka (Nižná Lipnica) being transferred to the Second Polish Republic.
November 1918: On 11 November 1918 in Warsaw, Józef Piłsudski was appointed Commander in Chief of Polish forces by the Regency Council and was entrusted with creating a national government for the newly independent country. On the same day, which would become Poland's Independence Day, he proclaimed the independent Polish Republic.
November 1918: The Republic of Zakopane was eventually disestablished on November 16 when the Polish Liquidation Committee took control of Galicia.
November 1918: Independence of the Second Polish Republic. Warsaw was free from November 11, 1918.
April 1919: The Republic of Tarnobrzeg was suppressed by units of the freshly created Polish Army at the beginning of 1919.
March 1919: The Polish Liquidation Committee handed over its authority to the central Polish government seated in Warsaw.
October 1921: In late 1921 a border adjustment between the Weimar Republic and Poland took place as a result of the Silesian Uprisings. The 1919 Treaty of Versailles had called for a plebiscite in Upper Silesia in 1921 to determine whether the territory should be a part of Germany or Poland. The Germans had a majority, his led to the Third Polish Uprising in May-July 1921. The commission, consisting of four representatives-one each from Belgium, Brazil, Spain, and China, gathered its own data, interviewing Poles and Germans from the region. On the basis of the reports of this commission and those of its experts, in October 1921 the Council awarded the greater part of the Upper Silesian industrial district to Poland.
