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On 20 March 1939, Nazi Germany's foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop presented an oral ultimatum to Juozas Urbšys, foreign minister of Lithuania. Germany demanded that Lithuania give up the Klaipėda Region (also known as the Memel Territory) which had been detached from Germany after World War I , or the Wehrmacht would invade Lithuania ...
The occupation of the Baltic states was a period of annexation of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania by the Soviet Union from 1940 until its dissolution in 1991.For a period of several years during World War II, Nazi Germany occupied the Baltic states after it invaded the Soviet Union in 1941.
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.
5 October 1939, Soviet Union begins negotiating with Finland for bases and territory exchanges. 10 October 1939, Lithuania accepts Soviet bases. Soviet Union transfers control over the Vilnius region to Lithuania. 18 October 1939, First Soviet units move into the designated military bases in Estonia. 13 November 1939, Finland rejects Soviet ...
Occupation of Lithuania may refer to: Soviet occupation of the Baltic states (1940), including Lithuania; Occupation of Lithuania by Nazi Germany during World War II ...
The conflict started when Lucjan Żeligowski captured Vilnius and establishmed the Polish puppet state known as the Republic of Central Lithuania, Żeligowski advanced into Lithuania and was defeated at Giedraičiai and on November 19, Żeligowski proposed to the Control Commission, led by Chardigny, to cease hostilities.
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 ...
In August 1939, Nazi Germany and Soviet Union signed the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact whereby dividing Eastern Europe into spheres of influence. The Baltic states (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia) became part of the Russian sphere. The Soviet Union began preparations for the occupation and incorporation of these territories.