Second Polish Republic

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The Second Polish Republic was the independent Polish state that existed between World War I and World War II, ultimately destroyed by the joint German and Soviet invasion in 1939.


Statements (64)
Predicate Object
instanceOf historical country
sovereign state
alliance Franco-Polish alliance
Polish–Romanian alliance
alsoKnownAs Interwar Poland
Second Republic of Poland
area approximately 388,000 square kilometres
borderedBy Czechoslovakia
Free City of Danzig
Germany
Latvia
Lithuania
Romania
Soviet Union
capital Warsaw
constitution April Constitution of 1935
March Constitution of 1921
continent Europe
conventionalLongName Republic of Poland
country Poland
currency Polish złoty
dissolutionCause German invasion of Poland
Soviet invasion of Poland
endTime 1939-09-28
ethnicGroup Belarusians
Germans
Jews
Poles
Ukrainians
event May Coup of 1926
Polish–Soviet War
firstPresident Gabriel Narutowicz
firstPrimeMinister Jędrzej Moraczewski
followedBy German occupation of Poland
Polish government-in-exile
Soviet occupation of Eastern Poland
governmentType parliamentary republic
hadPort Gdynia
hadPortAccess Baltic Sea
headOfGovernmentTitle Prime Minister of Poland
headOfStateTitle President of Poland
legislature Sejm
locatedIn Central Europe
majorCity Kraków
Lwów
Poznań
Wilno
Łódź
nativeName Rzeczpospolita Polska
notableLeader Ignacy Mościcki
Józef Piłsudski
officialLanguage Polish
population approximately 32,000,000 (1931)
populationCensusYear 1931
precededBy Austro-Hungarian Empire
German Empire
Kingdom of Poland (Congress Poland)
Russian Empire
previousCurrency Polish marka
religion Eastern Orthodoxy
Judaism
Roman Catholicism
startTime 1918-11-11
upperHouse Senate of Poland

Referenced by (154)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
1939 Defensive War
April Constitution of 1935
Battle of Komarów
Bitwa nad Bzurą ("II Rzeczpospolita Polska")
Council of Ministers of the Second Polish Republic
General Inspector of the Armed Forces of Poland
Home Army offensive operations in Vilnius region ("Second Polish Republic (prewar territory)")
Kresy
Lwów Polytechnic
Lwów Voivodeship
March Constitution of 1921
May Coup of 1926
Polesie Voivodeship
Polish People's Party "Wyzwolenie"
Polish presidential election, 1922
Pomorze Army
Poznań Army
Przewrót majowy
Sanation movement
Volhynian Voivodeship
Wilno
Wilno Voivodeship
Wiszniew, Second Polish Republic
pre-war Polish State Police
country
Council of Ministers of the Second Polish Republic ("government of the Second Polish Republic")
Eastern Poland
Kresy
Lwów
Lwów ("Poland (interwar period)")
Lwów Voivodeship
Lwów Voivodeship ("Poland between the wars")
Polesie Voivodeship
Volhynia
Volhynian Voivodeship
Wilno
Wilno Voivodeship
Wiszniew, Second Polish Republic
partOf
1939 Defensive War
Battle of Kock (1939)
Battle of the Border
Bombing of Wieluń
Case White
Intelligenzaktion
Invasion of Poland
Siege of Warsaw (1939)
location
1939 Defensive War
Battle of Komarów
Battle of the Border
Battle of the Bzura
Obrona Helu
Polish–Soviet War
belligerent
Congress Poland
Kingdom of Poland (1917–1918)
Kingdom of Poland (1917–1918) ("Republic of Poland (1918–1939)")
May Coup of 1926 ("Sanation regime")
Province of Posen
Ukrainian People’s Republic ("Polish Republic (Second Polish Republic) in some western territories")
followedBy
Battle of Hel
Battle of the Niemen River
Polish capitulation at Hel
Polish–Romanian alliance
countryInvolved
1939 Defensive War ("Interwar period in Poland")
General Government
Polish People’s Republic
Reichsgau Wartheland
precededBy
Polish–Lithuanian War
Polish–Soviet War
Polish–Ukrainian War
conflictBetween
Battle of Hel
Battle of Zadwórze
Lwów Uprising (1944)
countryAtTime
Białystok Ghetto ("Second Polish Republic territory (prewar)")
Lwów Polytechnic
Wiszniew, Second Polish Republic ("Interwar Poland")
locatedIn
Prussian Silesia
West Prussia
West Ukrainian People’s Republic
successor
Henryk Sucharski
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski
allegiance
Second Polish Republic ("Interwar Poland")
Second Polish Republic ("Second Republic of Poland")
alsoKnownAs
Council of Ministers of the Second Polish Republic
Polish government-in-exile
appliesToJurisdiction
Brest-Litovsk
Brzeżany
formerCountry
Białystok
Wilno
historicalAffiliation
Marshal of Poland
pre-war Polish State Police
historicalContext
Lwów School of Mathematics
Zułów
historicalCountry
Lwów Polytechnic ("interwar Poland")
Polish Army
historicalPeriod
Polish–Lithuanian War
RKKA
opponent
Elżbieta Narutowicz
Tadeusz Kutrzeba
residence
Franco-Polish alliance
Treaty of Riga
signatory
Lithuanian–Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
Province of West Prussia
succeededBy
Brzeżany
Lutsk
wasPartOf
Polish Socialist Party
activeIn
Ukrainian People’s Republic
alliedWith
Wartheland
annexedFrom
General Government (Nazi-occupied Poland)
annexedTerritoryFrom
West Ukrainian People’s Republic
claimedTerritoryFrom
Łódź Ghetto Jews
countryAtTheTime
Ilkenau
countryDuringNameUse
Stanisław Wojciechowski
countryLed
Paul Baran
countryOfBirth
Mordechai Anielewicz
countryOfCitizenship
Józef Lipski
countryRepresented
Poland–Soviet Union non-aggression pact
countrySignatory
Treaty of Riga
determinedBorderBetween
Polish coastal defenses
developedBy
Treaty of Riga
endedHostilitiesBetween
Pomorze Army
formedIn
Treaty of Riga
grantedTerritoryTo
German attack on Westerplatte
hasBelligerent
Hel
hasFormerSovereign
Interwar period
hasPart
Gabriel Narutowicz
headOfGovernment
Silesia
historicallyRuledBy
Republic of Poland
historicalPredecessor
Poles
historicalState
Vice Prime Minister of Poland
inception
Polska Krajowa Kasa Pożyczkowa
jurisdiction
Kingdom of Poland (1917–1918)
legalSuccessor
Volhynian Voivodeship ("Poland (interwar)")
locatedInEasternPartOf
Polish deportees in the USSR
locationOfOrigin
President of the Republic of Poland in exile
maintainedContinuityWith
Władysław Bortnowski
militaryAllegiance
Jadwiga Piłsudska
nationalityAtBirth
Prime Minister of Poland
officeCreatedIn
Polish People's Party "Wyzwolenie" ("interwar Poland")
operatedIn
Lithuanian–Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
opposedBy
Soviet occupation of Eastern Poland
participant
Stanisław Wojciechowski ("rebuilding of the Second Polish Republic")
participantIn
Leonid Kravchuk
placeOfBirth
Józef Piłsudski
placeOfDeath
May Coup d'État
politicalContext
Western Belarus
prewarState
Order of the White Eagle (Poland)
reinstatedBy
Russian Partition of Poland
replacedBy
Polish government-in-exile ("government of the Second Polish Republic")
replaces
German–Polish Non-Aggression Pact
signatoryGovernment
Polish independence movement ("Restoration of Polish independence in 1918")
significantEvent
Fall Weiss
target
April Constitution of 1935 ("interwar Poland")
timePeriod
Plan White
tookPlaceIn
Polish marka
usedIn
Western Belarus
wasIncorporatedInto

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