Baltic Entente
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The Baltic Entente was a mutual defense pact signed between Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia on September 12, 1934 in an attempt to establish a defense union between the three nations. The endeavour was ultimately unsuccessful - the combined strength of the three nations and statements of neutrality were insubstantial in the face of the massive armies of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. The plans for division of control of European lands located between the two superpowers laid out in the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact assigned the Baltic countries into Soviet "sphere of influence". As a result, in 1940 all three countries were indeed occupied by and annexed into the Soviet Union.
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- The destiny of the Baltic entente: 1934-1940 (Baltijas drosibas studijas) (ISBN 9984-9000-5-3)
- Purlys, Vidmantas and Vilkelis, Gintautas. Cooperation Between the Baltic States: A Lithuanian View, NATO Review, Vol. 43, No. 5, pp. 27-31. September 1995.
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