<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" id="mwAS4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="World War II">World War II</a>: The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union" id="mwAS8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> formally <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_occupation_of_Latvia_in_1940#1940–1941:_The_first_Soviet_occupation" id="mwATA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Soviet occupation of Latvia in 1940">annexes</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvia" id="mwATE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Latvia">Latvia</a>.