Resistance movement: Encyclopedia II - Resistance movement - Resistance movements

Resistance movement - Resistance movements

The following groups may differ widely in numbers and in activity:

Resistance movement - Post-World War II

Resistance movement - World War II

• Communist resistance, in several countries

• Albanian resistance movement
• Belgian resistance movement
• Czech Resistance movement
• Danish resistance movement
• Dutch resistance movement
  • Valkenburg resistance
• German resistance movements
  • The White Rose
  • The Red Orchestra
• French resistance movement in World War II, including the Maquis
• Greek resistance movement
• Italian resistance movement
• Lithuanian, Latvian, and Estonian ("Forest brothers") resistance movements during the Soviet invasion and occupation of the Baltic countries (continued after the end of WWII).
• Norwegian resistance movement
• Philippine resistance movement -- the anti-Japanese phase of the Huk movement
• Polish resistance organizations:
  • Armia Krajowa (the Home Army), Polish underground army in World War II (400 000 sworn members)
  • Gwardia Ludowa (the Peoples' Guard) and Armia Ludowa (the Peoples' Army)
  • Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa (ZOB, the Jewish Fighting Organisation), Jewish resistance movement that led the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943
  • Zydowski Zwiazek Walki (ZZW, the Jewish Fighting Union), Jewish resistance movement that led the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943
• Romanian anti-communist resistance movement - during the Soviet occupation of Romania (continued after the end of WWII).
• Slovak resistance movement
• Soviet resistance movement of Soviet partisans and underground which had Moscow-organized and spontaneously formed cells opposing German occupation.
• Ukrainian Insurgent Army - fought the Poles, the Germans and the Soviets.
• Yugoslav resistance movements:
  • People's Liberation Army – the partisans
  • Yugoslav Royal Army in the Fatherland aka Chetniks

Planned resistance movements:

• The Auxiliary Units, organized by Colonel Colin Gubbins as a potential British resistance movement against a possible invasion of the British Isles by Nazi forces.

Resistance movement - Pre-World War II

• The Rising of East Karelians (1921-1922)
• Non-Cooperation Movement (1919-1939)

Resistance movement - Pre-20th Century

• Carbonari - 19th century Italian movement resisting Austrian or Bourbon rule.

• Sons of Liberty - Revolutionary patriot group that embraced Republicanism in the United States during the 1760's and 1770's and routinely engaged in acts of violent resistance against British government officials and prominent loyalist sympathizers. The Boston branch of the Sons of Liberty met under the Liberty Tree, from which they would post messages or hang and burn effigies of their enemies.

• The Underground Railroad - The pre American Civil War slave escape network consisting of volunteers who were dedicated to secretly helping escaping slave reach free states or Canada.

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