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Bulgaria was restored to its borders of 1 January 1941, returning Vardar Macedonia to Yugoslavia and Eastern Macedonia and Western Thrace to Greece, but keeping Southern Dobruja per the Treaty of Craiova, leaving Bulgaria as the only former Axis power to keep territory that was gained during the Second World War.
The government of the Kingdom of Bulgaria under Prime Minister Georgi Kyoseivanov declared a position of neutrality upon the outbreak of World War II. Bulgaria was determined to observe it until the end of the war; but it hoped for bloodless territorial gains in order to recover the territories lost in the Second Balkan War and World War I, as well as gain other lands with a significant ...
After the attack on the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany, the communists in Bulgaria became more active. In the period 1941–1944, a partisan communist movement was formed within the borders of Vardar Macedonia, dominated by the Yugoslav Communist Party, and led to the restoration of Yugoslavia after the end of the war.
1940 September 7 — South Dobruja is relinquished by Romania to Bulgaria after reaching an agreement and signing the Treaty of Craiova. 1941 April 1 — Balkan Campaign — At the conclusion of the Invasion of Yugoslavia and Greece , both countries are divided among the participants.
The capital of Bulgaria, Sofia, and other Bulgarian cities, were bombed by Allied aircraft in 1943 and 1944. As of October 2024 [update] , the declarations of war against Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania are the last formal declarations of war by the United States Congress, which in the era of collective security has largely ceded the war power ...
De Bono's invasion of Ethiopia (Italian military operation to annex Ethiopian Empire) [4] Map of the Italian operations during the conquest of Ethiopia. Italian conquest of Absinia after the Second Italo-Ethiopian War in 1936; Axis operations and territorial ambitions during Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) Italian military intervention in Spain
The Outline of the Post-War New World Map was a map completed before the attack on Pearl Harbor [1] and self-published on February 25, 1942 [2] by Maurice Gomberg of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It shows a proposed political division of the world after World War II in the event of an Allied victory in which the United States of America, the ...
After the death of Stalin in 1953, the Bulgarian Communist Party began looking for a new leader to replace the rigid Chervenkov. In March 1954 it found a forty-one-year-old politburo member, Todor Zhivkov, who had commanded the People's Militia in Sofia at the end of World War II. Zhivkov remained Party Secretary for thirty-three years, one of ...