Refer to three wars Lithuania fought defending its independence at the end of World War I: with Bolshevik forces (December 1918 – August 1919), Bermontians (June 1919 – December 1919), and Poland (August 1920 – November 1920). It began in December 1918 and lasted until August 1919 (about 8 months). The setting was Lithuania. Those involved included Lithuania, Free Corps, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and the Second Polish Republic. About 38,000 people died.
Before and after
- from 28 November 1918 to 3 January 1920Estonian War of Independence
- from December 1918 to October 1921Franco-Turkish War
- from December 1918 to August 1919Lithuanian–Soviet War
- from December 1918 to June 1919Hungarian-Czechoslovak-România War
- from December 1918 to August 1919Lithuanian Wars of Independence
- from 1 December 1918 to 27 April 1992Yugoslavia
- from 1 December 1918 to 30 June 1930Occupation of the Rhineland
- from 5 December 1918 to 11 August 1920Latvian War of Independence
- 11 December 1918Birth of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
More in Wars, politics & history
- from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918World War I
- 16 May 1916Sykes–Picot Agreement
- from February 1919 to March 1921Polish–Soviet War
- 4 June 1920Treaty of Trianon
- 24 July 1923Treaty of Lausanne
- from 1 September 1939 to 2 September 1945World War II
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