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Official protocol of Bulgaria's accession into the Tripartite Pact. The Tsardom of Bulgaria had been an ally of Germany and on the losing side in World War I. From the beginning, the Germans pressured Bulgaria to join the Tripartite Pact. On 17 November 1940, Tsar Boris III and Foreign Minister Ivan Popov met with Hitler in Germany.
After April 1944, the Soviets increased pressure on Bulgaria to abandon the Axis alliance. [4] Bulgaria had maintained diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union while being a member of the Axis Powers. Bulgaria's antisemitic "Law for the Protection of the Nation", based on the German race laws.
The Axis powers, [nb 1] originally called the Rome–Berlin Axis [1] and also Rome–Berlin–Tokyo Axis, was the military coalition which initiated World War II and fought against the Allies. Its principal members were Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and the Empire of Japan. The Axis were united in their far-right positions and general opposition ...
Franz von Papen, the German foreign minister, visited Ankara with hopes of persuading Turkey to join the Axis powers. This would have significantly shortened the Axis route through the Caucasus to the valuable Soviet oil fields in Baku. As it turned out, by 1942 the German Army was almost on Turkey's eastern doorstep, only a few miles from the ...
German–Soviet Axis talks (considered plans to join the Soviet Union to the Axis powers and its New World Order) First Offer from Axis to the Soviets in Partitioning the world ( Soviet Baltic states , Eastern Poland , Moldovian SSR , Eastern Turkey , Iran , Afghanistan , British India and Mongolia in Soviet Sphere of Influence.
On June 5, 1942, the United States declared war on Bulgaria. Bulgaria was neutral during 1939–1941, but on March 1, 1941, Bulgaria signed the Tripartite Pact and officially joined the Axis bloc. Following this, the Bulgarian government declared war on the United Kingdom and the United States on December 13, 1941.
In World War II, Bulgaria started as a member of the Axis powers, [12] but when the Soviets invaded the Balkans, Bulgaria joined the Allied powers on the Soviet side. [13] The Soviet Red Army backed the Bulgarian coup d'état of 1944 , which brought the Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP) to power.
Bulgaria was the last country to join the Central Powers, which it did in October 1915 by declaring war on Serbia. [12] It invaded Serbia in conjunction with German and Austro-Hungarian forces. [46] Bulgaria held claims on the region of Vardar Macedonia then held by Serbia following the Balkan Wars of 1912–1913 and the Treaty of Bucharest ...