![]() ![]() However, by December 1941, Bulgaria was compelled to declare a token war against the United Kingdom and United States. Boris III did not wish to actively engage in the conflict (perhaps because of the massive trauma the country sustained in the first war), but welcomed the bloodless return to Bulgaria lands lost after World War I, which Germany obliged once Yugoslavia and Greece fell to Axis forces. In the early months of the Second World War, Boris III and his government declared Bulgaria to be neutral, but increasing Axis pressure and promises to return Thrace to Bulgaria led to the country joining the Axis powers in March 1941. By the 1930s, Tsar Boris III had ruled Bulgaria for several decades alongside a parliament and prime minister. Bulgaria was further forced to pay reparations and limit its standing army, much in the sense of Versailles for Germany and Trianon for Hungary. Historical background Īs one of the defeated central powers of the First World War, the Kingdom of Bulgaria was subject to the Treaty of Neuilly, taking from it lands which contained many ethnic Bulgarians, especially Macedonia, Thrace, and Dobrudja, which were respectively given to Yugoslavia, Greece, and Romania.
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