Pacification

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Pacification may refer to:

Mass killing of civilians and the suppression of resistance

• Pacification operations in German-occupied Poland, the use of German military force to suppress Polish resistance during World War II
• Massacres of Poles in Volhynia, mass murder of Poles from Kresy by the Ukrainian OUN-UPA nationalists during World War II
• Pacification of Wujek, a strike-breaking action by the communist forces against miners in Katowice, Poland, on December 16, 1981
• Pacification of Manchukuo, a campaign during the Second Sino-Japanese War which took place from March 1932 until 1941
• Pacification of Ukrainians in Eastern Galicia (1930), punitive action of Polish police against Ukrainian minority in Poland in response to acts of sabotage against Polish Property.

Making peace (even if used as a euphemism)

• Pacification of Berwick, signed on June 18, 1639 between England and Scotland
• Pacification Sejm, a session of the Sejm in 1736 concluding the civil war in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
• Cuban Pacification (1906 - 1909), the United States occupation of Cuba following the Spanish-American War; see Army of Cuban Pacification Medal
• Pacification of the Araucanía (1861–1883), the Chilean term for the actions which led to the incorporation of Araucanía into Chile
• Pacification of Ghent, an alliance of several provinces of the Netherlands signed on November 8, 1576
• Pacification of 1918, between religious and secular sects in the Netherlands
• Pacification of Castile, the re-establishment of Catholic Monarchs' rule in 15th Century Spain

Other

• Violent Pacification, an album by Dirty Rotten Imbeciles

See also

• Appeasment
• Peace Treaty
• Peace
• Pacifier
• Pogrom

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