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German occupation of Czechoslovakia Mar. 1939; Hungarian invasion of Carpatho-Ukraine Mar. 1939; German ultimatum to Lithuania Mar. 1939; Slovak–Hungarian War Mar. 1939; Final offensive of the Spanish Civil War Mar.–Apr. 1939; Danzig Crisis Mar.–Aug. 1939; British guarantee to Poland Mar. 1939; Italian invasion of Albania Apr. 1939
Latvia followed on 5 October 1939 and Lithuania shortly thereafter, on 10 October 1939. The agreements permitted the Soviet Union to establish military bases on the Baltic states' territory for the duration of the European war [26] and to station 25,000 Soviet soldiers in Estonia, 30,000 in Latvia and 20,000 in Lithuania starting October 1939.
As a result of the German-Soviet Invasion of Poland part of Vilnius Region was under Lithuanian administration in the period lasting from the takeover of the city from the occupying Soviet administration on October 27, 1939, to the occupation of all of Lithuania including Vilnius on June 15, 1940. [1]
24 September 1939, Stalin demands establishment of Soviet military bases in neutral Estonia, using the Orzeł incident as the pretext and threatening with war in case of noncompliance. 28 September 1939, Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact amended pursuant to German-Soviet Boundary and Friendship Treaty; most of Lithuania now falls into the Soviet ...
Following the Nazi electoral success in Klaipėda in December 1938, Germany decided to take action to secure control of the entire region. On 20 March 1939, just a few days after the German occupation of Czechoslovakia of 15 March, Lithuania received the 1939 German ultimatum to Lithuania from foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. It ...
The territories that Lithuania received from the Soviet Union were former territories of the Second Polish Republic, disputed between Poland and Lithuania since the Polish-Lithuanian War of 1920 and occupied by the Soviet Union following the Soviet invasion of Poland in September 1939. The Soviet–Lithuanian Treaty was described by The New ...
Borders and other Border of Lithuania (1945 – present) Border of Vilnius Region: Polish territory; claimed by Lithuania based on the Soviet–Lithuania Peace Treaty of 1920; occupied by the Soviet Union in September 1939 Soviet military bases established in Lithuania according to the Soviet–Lithuania Mutual Assistance Treaty, signed on October 10, 1939
The background of the occupation of the Baltic states covers the period before the first Soviet occupation on 14 June 1940, stretching from independence in 1918 to the Soviet ultimatums in 1939–1940. Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia gained independence in the aftermath of the Russian revolutions of 1917 and the German occupation which in the ...