{"id":13968,"date":"2026-04-20T02:12:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T20:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/year-of-soviet-occupation-and-annexation-in-world-war-ii\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T02:12:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T20:12:51","slug":"year-of-soviet-occupation-and-annexation-in-world-war-ii","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/year-of-soviet-occupation-and-annexation-in-world-war-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Year of Soviet occupation and annexation in World War II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In which year did the Soviet Union occupy and subsequently annex Lithuania during World War II?<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"quiz-options wp-block-list\">\n<li>1940<\/li>\n<li>1939<\/li>\n<li>1944<\/li>\n<li>1941<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","topic":[1900],"subject":[1899],"education_level":[1896],"class_list":["post-13968","mcq","type-mcq","status-publish","hentry","topic-lithuania-independence-movements","subject-european-history","education_level-hsc"],"mcq_note":"Following the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939 and subsequent Soviet pressure, the Soviet Union occupied and annexed Lithuania in 1940. The incorporation of Lithuania into the USSR lasted until the 1990-1991 independence movements, despite periods of German occupation during World War II and the reassertion of Soviet control after 1944.","mcq_options":[{"right":"yes","answer":"1940"},{"right":"no","answer":"1939"},{"right":"no","answer":"1944"},{"right":"no","answer":"1941"}],"multi_answers":"no","subject_terms":[{"id":1899,"title":"European History","slug":"european-history"}],"topic_terms":[{"id":1900,"title":"Lithuania Independence Movements","slug":"lithuania-independence-movements"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq\/13968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mcq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=13968"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=13968"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=13968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}