@ARTICLE{Tebinka_Jacek_Poland_2020, author={Tebinka, Jacek}, volume={Folge 13 : Plebiszite, Selbstbestimmung, Minderheitsrechte}, journal={Historie. Jahrbuch des Zentrums für Historische Forschung Berlin der Polnischen Akademie der Wissenschaften}, pages={30-46}, howpublished={online}, year={2020}, publisher={Zentrum für Historische Forschung Berlinder Polnischen Akademie der Wissenschaft}, abstract={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.}, type={Artykuły / Articles}, title={Poland and Her Alliances in Post-World War I Europe}, URL={http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/116409/PDF/2020-01-HIST-02-Tebinka.pdf}, doi={10.24425/historie.2020.133248}, keywords={borders, Poland, alliances, Germany, Soviet Russia, Treaty of Riga, European security}, }