Beschreibung
Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 35. Chapters: Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, Occupation of the Baltic states, Soviet occupation of Latvia in 1940, Welles Declaration, List of sovereign states in 1940, List of state leaders in 1940, Arsenal of Democracy, Polish decrees, Executive Order 8484, List of colonial governors in 1940, Havana Conference of 1940. Excerpt: During June 28 - July 4, 1940, the Soviet Red Army military occupied the formerly Romanian held regions of Bessarabia, Northern Bukovina, and Hertsa, after the Romanian government agreed to evacuate its troops and administration. The Soviet Union had planned to accomplish the annexation with a full-scale invasion, but the Romanian government, under a Soviet ultimatum delivered on June 26, agreed to withdraw from the territories in order to avoid a military conflict. Germany, who had acknowledged the Soviet interest in Bessarabia in a secret protocol to the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, had been made aware prior of the planned ultimatum on June 24, but had not informed the Romanian authorities, nor was willing to provide support. The fall of Fall of France on 22 June is considered an important factor in the Soviet decision to issue the ultimatums. On August 2, 1940, the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic was proclaimed as a constituent republic of the Soviet Union, encompassing most of Soviet-controlled Bessarabia, as well as the former Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic on the left bank of the Dniester. The regions inhabited by Slavic majorities (Northern Bukovina, the region of Khotin and Southern Bessarabia) were included in the Ukrainian SSR. The Soviet administration was marked by a series of campaigns of political persecution, including arrests, deportations to labour camps and executions. In July 1941, Romanian and Nazi German troops recaptured Bessarabia during the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union. A military administration was established and the region's Jewish population was either executed on the spot or deported to Transnistria, where further were killed. In August 1944, during the Soviet Jassy-Kishinev Offensive, the Axis war effort on the Eastern Front collapsed, and Soviet forces entered not only Bessarabia, but also occupied most of Romania. On September 12, 1944, Romania signed the Moscow Armistice with the Allies. The Armistice, as we
