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[1] [2] Bulgaria resisted Axis pressure to join the war against the Soviet Union, which began on 22 June 1941, but did declare war on Britain and the United States on 13 December 1941. The Red Army entered Bulgaria on 8 September 1944; Bulgaria declared war on Germany the next day.
From the very beginning, branches of the Bulgarian National Bank, the Bulgarian Agricultural and Cooperative Bank, the Macedonian National Bank, the Popular Bank, the Bulgarian Credit Bank, and others began to be established in the larger cities of Vardar Macedonia. The Bulgarian Agricultural and Cooperative Bank had granted loans in the amount ...
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.
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 ...
Bulgaria paid damages for shooting Greek soldiers [1] World War II (1941–1945) ... Axis Powers: Nazi Germany Empire of Japan Kingdom of Italy (1939–43)
This is a list of puppet states sponsored, created, or controlled by an occupying member of the Axis or Allied powers in World War II.. These puppet states or régimes claimed to enjoy full, complete, and independent sovereignty, but took at least some direction from their countries' occupiers. [1]
A Franklin County jury awarded a group of central Ohio dog breeders more than $2 million in a lawsuit involving the handling of dog semen collections in a tank that failed, resulting in the loss ...
1967 — The Federation of South Arabia and the Protectorate of South Arabia join to form South Yemen. 1967 — Following the Six-Day War, Israel gains the Sinai Peninsula and Gaza Strip from Egypt, the West Bank from Jordan and Golan Heights from Syria; 1969 — Western New Guinea is integrated by Indonesia following the controversial Act of ...