Polen und seine Verbündeten auf der neuen Landkarte Europas nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg

• Authors: Jacek Tebinka

Title variants

EN

Poland and Her Alliances in Post-World War I Europe

Abstracts

EN

The aim of this study is to analyse the geopolitical position of independent Poland after World War I and the state of her relations with neighbour states, and the policy of building alliances with France and Romania. In view of border conflicts with Lithuania and Czechoslovakia as well as the constant German and Soviet threat, the reborn Polish state was forced to seek for allies in the West. The alliances with France and Romania could not however reduce the danger for Poland emerging from Soviet-German cooperation basing on the treaty of Rapallo from 1922. Also the treaty of Locarno from 1925 in which Polish borders were left without guarantee was seen as a failure of Polish diplomacy. The inconvenient geopolitical position of Poland, and the aggressive policy of the Third Reich and the Soviet Union resulted in the Hitler-Stalin Pact from 23rd of August 1939 and the partition of Poland.

Keywords

EN

borders; Poland; alliances; Germany; Soviet Russia; Treaty of Riga; European security

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Historie. Jahrbuch des Zentrums für Historische Forschung Berlin der Polnischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 13
• Pages: 30-46

Dates

published

2020

Contributors

author

Jacek Tebinka

Identifiers

DOI

10.24425/historie.2020.133248

Biblioteka Nauki

56077695