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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 ...
According to Goebbels, Hitler was convinced that the Italian royal court was the organizer of the poisoning of Boris III, as Princess Mafalda of Savoy, sister of Joan of Bulgaria, was visiting Bulgaria four weeks before the monarch's death and her visit coincided with the events of 25 July 1943, [30] [31] the overthrow of the Italian Fascist ...
Aligned with Nazi Germany during World War II (1939–1945), [76] [79] mainly out of a desire to increase Bulgarian territory. [79] Bulgaria participated in the invasions of Yugoslavia and Greece, [78] though Boris refused to send Bulgarian soldiers to aid the German invasion of Russia. [76] His government oversaw the Holocaust in Bulgaria.
During his time in power, he received the Path to Peace Award from the Path to Peace Foundation in 2002. [13] Bulgaria next joined NATO and joined the U.S.-led coalition against Iraq. In the 2005 elections , Simeon's party ranked second and participated in the grand coalition government led by the Bulgarian Socialist Party and including the ...
Prince of Bulgaria Tsardom of Bulgaria: 1908–1946 Tsar of Bulgaria People's Republic of Bulgaria: 1946–1947 Chairman of the Provisional Presidency 1947–1971 Chairman of the Presidium of the National Assembly 1971–1990 Chairman of the State Council 1990 Chairman (President) of the Republic Republic of Bulgaria: 1990–1992 1992–present
Bulgaria left the war after the Soviet Union declared war on Bulgaria. 1944: Women earned the right to vote. 1948: 27 December: Georgi Dimitrov became the leader of the communist party. 1947: Bulgaria and the Soviet Union signed a peace treaty. 1949: 2 July: Georgi Dimitrov died and Valko Chervenkov became the new leader of the communist party ...
On April 24, 1941, Bulgaria and Germany secretly concluded the Clodius-Popov Agreement, which gave Germany unlimited rights to exploit the natural resources in the newly conquered lands, and Bulgaria undertook to pay the costs of German military facilities, to pay off Yugoslavia's financial obligations to Germany and to establish the ...
Bulgarian partisans enter Sofia on 9 September. Bulgaria was in a precarious situation, still in the sphere of Nazi Germany's influence (as a former member of the Axis powers, with German troops in the country despite the declared Bulgarian neutrality 15 days earlier), but under threat of war with the leading military power of that time, the Soviet Union (the USSR had declared war on the ...