In 1972 the FBI announced on the 10th of October that the Watergate incident was part of a campaign of espionage from the re-election committee.
On the 17th of June 1972 the Democratic National Committee’s headquarters were broken into by five men. The Burglars (Bernard Barker, Virgilio Gonzales, James McCord, Eugenio Martinez and Frank Sturgis) had many CIA connections, many being former employees, broke into the Watergate office complex which contained the Democrat Party’s Headquarters. They placed phone taps and bugs in the offices which would allow the Republican Party access to private information.
The FBI began looking into the break in and attempted wire taps which worried certain members of President Nixon’s re-election committee known as the Committee for the Re-election of the President, also known as CRP but later known as CREEP.
President Richard Milhous Nixon, a Republican, met with his Chief of Staff, H.R. Haldeman on the 23rd of June 1972 to discuss the matter. Although the President appeared to be unaware of the Watergate break in plans, having asked "Who was the asshole who ordered it", he did agree to Haldeman’s plans to use the CIA to block the investigation by the FBI.
President Nixon had a recording system installed in the oval office, an act that would later be used against him.
As more evidence continued to mount the FBI announced on the 10th of October that the Watergate incident was part of a campaign of espionage from the re-election committee. Despite this Nixon was re-elected President of the United States by over 60% of the vote (one of largest landslide victories in US political history).
In 1939 “The Soviet-Lithuanian Mutual Assistance Treaty” was also signed allowing the Soviets to place five bases in Lithuania.
Lithuania was one of several smaller nations of Europe forced to sign these treaties all of which were outlined by the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (named after the two foreign ministers that signed the pact) which was signed on the 23rd of October 1939. The pact was a non-aggression treaty between Germany and Russia which also a secret agreement which included carving up of the countries of Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Romania for the political influence (known as “spheres of influence”) of the Nazi party and Soviet Union. Poland had already fallen to the two nation’s invasion forces (Germany began on the1st of September followed by the Soviets on the 17th of September 1939) and one week after Russia joined the invasion, on the 24th of September 1939, the Soviet Navy began patrolling the Estonian shores pressuring their government to allow Soviet military bases in Estonia. The Soviets then forced Latvia to sign a treaty on the 5th of October 1939 forcing them to allow military bases in their country. On the 10th of October 1939 “The Soviet-Lithuanian Mutual Assistance Treaty” was also signed allowing the Soviets to place five bases in Lithuania.
Soviet Russia continued their own invasion of European countries with their invasion of Finland which began on the 30th of November 1939 (their invasion continued ultimately unsuccessfully until the 13th of March 1940 in what was called “The Winter War” but the Soviets did gain around 11% of Finnish territory). As the German army forced the fall of Paris on the 14th of June 1940, the Soviets began a military blockade of Estonia before their full invasion began on the 16th of June. Already occupied by Soviet military, the Estonian government capitulated the following day on the 17th of June 1940 and Russia then began their invasion of Latvia. The Soviet Union also issued an Ultimatum to Lithuania on the 14th of June 1940 and invaded the following day.
