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Soviet sphere of influence in Central and Eastern Europe with border changes resulting from invasion and military operations of World War II. During World War II, the Soviet Union occupied and annexed several countries effectively handed over by Nazi Germany in the secret Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact of 1939.
Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran: No Byelorussia: 1941–1944 Soviet Union Germany: Occupation of Byelorussia: No Ukraine: Occupation of Ukraine: Baltic states: Occupation of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania (de jure independent, de facto under Soviet rule) Parts of European Russia: Eastern Front: Eastern Karelia Finland: Continuation War: No Guam ...
Occupation and annexation of the Baltic states into the Soviet Union by the Red Army; 1940 Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina (part of World War II) Soviet Union Romania: Victory Bessarabia, Northern Bukovina and the Hertsa region annexed into the Soviet Union; formation of the Moldavian SSR; 1941–1945 World War II: Allied ...
This is a list of the violent political and ethnic conflicts in the countries of the former Soviet Union following its dissolution in 1991. Some of these conflicts such as the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis or the 2013–2014 Euromaidan protests in Ukraine were due to political crises in the successor states. Others involved separatist ...
A Soviet T-26 light tank and its crew in Tabriz, Iran. The Soviet Union policy during World War II was neutrality until August 1939, followed by friendly relations with Germany in order to carve up Eastern Europe. The USSR helped supply oil and munitions to Germany as its armies rolled across Western Europe in May–June 1940.
Soviet expansion in 1939–1940. After the Soviet invasion of Poland on 17 September 1939, in accordance with the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact the Soviet forces were given freedom over Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, an important aspect of the agreement to the Soviet government as they were afraid of Germany using the three states as a corridor to get close to Leningrad.
Allied-occupied Austria (from 27 April 1945) was divided into four zones of occupation by France, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union. Allied-occupied Germany (from 5 June 1945 to 7 October 1949) was divided into four zones of occupation by France, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union.
First Soviet occupation of Estonia (1940–1941) [34] Second Soviet occupation of Estonia (1944–1991) Latvia. Executive Committee of the Soviet of Workers, Soldiers, and the Landless in Latvia (1917–1918) Latvian Socialist Soviet Republic (1918–1920) First Soviet occupation of Latvia (1940–1941) Second Soviet occupation of Latvia (1944 ...