Regaining of independence by Poland in 1918 – as a result of WWI the three partitioner empires (Germany, Austria-Hungary and Russia) fell. In January 1918 the Poland’s right independence was recognised by the US president Woodrow Wilson. During the last weeks of war several political centres, such as the Polish Liquidation Committee or the Provisional People’s Government of the Republic of Poland in Lublin, cropped up in the Polish lands, which were still occupied by Germans. The organisations were liquidating the invader’s administration. On the 11th November Józef Piłsudski, the leader of the Polish Legions, took power from the Regency Council (the Polish representatives to Germans). Three days later the Council dissolved itself, giving thus the whole power to Piłsudski. He was widely recognised as the only representative of the Polish authorities. On the 18th November appointed a government headed by Jędrzej Moraczewski. In January 1919 there were parliamentary elections to Sejm. The independent Polish state was internationally recognised in the Versailles treaty signed in June 1919 which ended WWI.