Norwegian and Arctic Seas • June 27, 1942 In March 1941, 9 months before Pearl Harbor plunged the neutral nation into World War II, the United States inaugurated the “Lend-Lease” program. That program gave Great Britain, the Soviet Union, China, and other Allied nations resisting Axis aggressors, mainly Germany and Japan, vast amounts of war matériel to…
Bucharest, Romania • June 27, 1940 On this date in 1940 Red Army troops invaded Romania in the wake of Romanian King Carol II’s refusal to cede the eastern territories of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina to the Soviet Union (see map). These territories, once part of Czarist Russia and Austria-Hungary before 1918, had been assigned to…
Bucharest, Romania · June 27, 1940 On this date in 1940 Red Army troops invaded Romania in the wake of Romanian King Carol II’s refusal to cede the eastern territories of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina to the Soviet Union (see map). These territories had been assigned to the Soviet sphere of influence in a secret protocol…