Polish War of Independence (The German Century)

Polish War of Independence
Part of World War I
Date 1919–1921 Location Central and Eastern Europe Result Disputed: Polish forces prevent Soviet occupation of Poland Poland regains independence for the first time in almost 126 years German establishes a puppet government in Warsaw Poland conquers Lithuania
Belligerents
Poland Ukrainian People's Republic White Movement	Russian SFSR Ukrainian SSR Byelorussian SSR German Empire Lithuania
Commanders and leaders
J. Piłsudski J. Haller T. Rozwadowski E. Rydz-Śmigły W. Sikorski S. Petlyura	Leon Trotsky Josef Stalin  †
Strength
From ~50,000 in early 1919 to ~738,000 in August 1920	From ~50,000 in early 1919 to almost 800,000 in summer 1920
Casualties and losses
Estimated 60,000 killed and 80,000 – 157,000 taken prisoner (including rear-area personnel)	About 47,000 killed, 113,518 wounded and 51,351 taken prisoner

The Polish War of Independence was an armed conflict that pitted Poland and Ukraine against Germany in the west and the new Soviet republics in the east.