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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
Arab revolt in Palestine 1936–1939; Spanish Civil War 1936–1939; Italo-German "Axis" protocol 1936; Anti-Comintern Pact 1936; Suiyuan campaign 1936; Xi'an Incident 1936; Second Sino-Japanese War 1937–1945; USS Panay incident 1937; Anschluss Mar. 1938; Polish ultimatum to Lithuania Mar. 1938; May Crisis May 1938; Battle of Lake Khasan July ...
This did not stop the conflicts in schools, which actually lasted until the start of the Soviet occupation. [62] On 15 December 1939, Stefan Batory University in Vilnius was closed down. By June 1940, the majority of Polish gymnasia and pro-gymnasia had also been liquidated, and gymnasia operating in pre-war Lithuania were closed down.
Kaunas pogrom in German-occupied Lithuania, June 1941. Photograph attributed to Wilhelm Gunsilius. [18]On June 22, 1941, the territory of the Lithuanian SSR was invaded by two advancing German army groups: Army Group North, which took over western and northern Lithuania, and Army Group Centre, which took over most of the Vilnius Region.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...