Pacification

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.
• Pacification of Tonkin, a slow, frustrating but ultimately successful military and political campaign undertaken by the French in northern Vietnam.

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 1917, 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