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The Romanian army began limited military operations. On June 24, Romania officially declared war on the Soviet Union. [14] 1941-06-22: Tuva: Germany: W: Tuva was a client state of the Soviet Union. Part of the USSR from 1944. 1941-06-24: Bulgaria: Greece Yugoslavia: A [6] Bulgaria declares war on Greece and Yugoslavia. 1941-06-25 Finland Soviet ...
Map of Romania after World War II indicating lost territories. Under the 1947 Treaty of Paris, [43] the Allies did not acknowledge Romania as a co-belligerent nation but instead applied the term "ally of Hitlerite Germany" to all recipients of the treaty's stipulations. Like Finland, Romania had to pay $300 million to the Soviet Union as war ...
World War I: Triple Entente. France ... Romania exited: 9 May 1945. World War II: Axis
World War II began in September 1939, and the German victory on the Western Front and the subsequent defeat of France in June 1940 seriously alarmed the King of Romania Carol II. He was convinced that the allies could no longer defend Romania, so he decided that the only way to keep the country together was by relying on Germany.
(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:
7: Paraguay declares war on Germany and Japan. 9: The Colmar Pocket, the last German foothold west of the Rhine, is eliminated by the French 1st Army. 12: Peru declares war on Germany and Japan. 13: The Battle of Budapest ends with Soviet victory, after a long defense by the Germans.
French Somaliland, with its capital at Djibouti, was the scene of skirmishing and a blockade during the East African campaign of World War II. After Italy declared war on France on 10 June 1940, there was some fighting between their forces in Somaliland until the fall of France and the Franco-Italian Armistice on 25 June.
The Allies of World War II began to form in September 1939 when Poland was invaded and Britain and France declared war on Nazi Germany.Except for Ireland, which remained neutral throughout the war, the Commonwealth Dominions (Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa) all declared war alongside Great Britain but no other nations joined their cause.