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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 ...
Out of the Axis countries only Romania reciprocated, declaring war on Nicaragua on the same day: Declaration 1941-12-20: Belgium (in-exile) Japan: W: Declaration: 1941-12-24: Haiti: Romania Hungary Bulgaria: W [6] Declaration 1941-12-24: Romania: Haiti: W [20] Out of the Axis countries only Romania reciprocated, declaring war on Haiti on the ...
Romania lost again Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, to USSR, back to the border of 1940; Second Vienna Award was annulled (Romania re-gained control of Northern Transylvania, lost to Hungary in 1940) Bulgaria kept control of Southern Dobruja, as of 1940; Communist regime installed in Romania; 300,000 soldiers dead
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 ...
See Bulgaria–Germany relations. Bulgaria has an embassy in Berlin, a general-consulate in Munich and an office in Bonn. [188] Germany has an embassy in Sofia. [189] Both countries are full members of the European Union and NATO. [157] [155] German Foreign Ministry about relations with Bulgaria Greece: 1880 [190] See Bulgaria–Greece relations
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]
(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 $8,042,000,000 in 2024) from Italy:
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.