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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 ...
The Allies bombed Romania heavily from 1943 onwards, and during the Battle of Romania, Soviet armies occupied the country in 1944. Popular support for Romania's participation in the war faltered, and the German–Romanian fronts collapsed under the Soviet onslaught. King Michael of Romania engineered the 1944 Romanian coup d'état that deposed ...
British historian Dennis Deletant has asserted that Romania's crucial contributions to the Axis war effort, including having the third largest Axis army in Europe and sustaining the German war effort through oil and other materiel, meant that it was "on a par with Italy as a principal ally of Germany and not in the category of a minor Axis ...
The Entente offered Bulgaria Eastern Thrace to the west of the line Midia-Enos and uncertain guarantees for Macedonia. However, Serbia and Greece were reluctant to make any concessions to Bulgaria. The Central Powers offered Vardar Macedonia and eastern Serbia and, in case Romania or Greece entered the war, Southern Dobruja and Aegean Macedonia ...
(Bulgaria was part of the Axis but did not declare war on the Soviet Union). In the cases of Romania and Hungary, the reparation terms as set forth in their armistices were relatively high and were not revised. War reparations at 1938 prices, in United States dollar amounts: $360,000,000 (equivalent to $7,792,000,000 in 2023) from Italy:
In a radio broadcast to the Romanian people and army on the night of 23 August 1944 King Michael issued a cease-fire, [117] proclaimed Romania's loyalty to the Allies, announced the acceptance of an armistice (to be signed on 12 September) [118] offered by the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States, and declared war on Germany. [119]
NATO Deputy-General Secretary Mircea Geoana said on Monday there is “no risk” that Alliance member Romania will be dragged into a war following the recent discovery of drone fragments on its ...
The pro-Soviet and pro-communist governments established in Bulgaria and Romania at the end of World War II somewhat improved the previously damaged relations between the two. [57] In fact, when the war was still happening, Bulgaria recovered Southern Dobruja following the signing of the Treaty of Craiova, done under Nazi German pressure. [59]