Although he maintained a tactical alliance with the United Kingdom, France, and the United States during World War II, this alliance was primarily born out of necessity to defeat their common enemy, Nazi Germany.
There was always a deep mutual distrust and ideological rift between Stalin's communist regime and the capitalist, democratic principles of the Western powers.
One of the first measures that Hitler took after his rise to power was the abandonment of the League of Nations, it was his way of showing in practice his rejection of the international order of Versailles. Rejection that he had made very clear at the beginning of Nazism, in the 25 Points of the DAP
By October 1940, Axis 1 forces (Germany, Italy, Japan) had occupied Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Denmark and Poland. Italy, from the beginning of April 1939, had occupied Albania, installing a pro-Italian government in Tirana under Prime Minister Shefqet or Shefqet Bey Verlaci (Shefqet bej
Operation Harling was the code name for the strategic bridge operation in Greece aimed at cutting off the supply of Rommels army at El Alamein. So the SOE (Special Operations Executive), which coordinated the resistance organizations in the occupied countries, decided to blow up the bridge. The g
The Bulgarian ruler Samuel, who, like the Greek Alexander, is appropriated today by the people of Skopje, had led the Bulgarian army from success to success, in the war against the Byzantines, establishing, in 997 AD. the First Bulgarian Empire, of which he was named tsar. The emperor of Byzanti