High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Following the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in August 1939, Romania lost almost one third of its territory, without a single shot being fired, as Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina were annexed by the Soviet Union on June 28, 1940, after Romania yielded to a Soviet ultimatum. As a result, King Carol II was forced to abdicate in September 1940, and General Ion Antonescu rose to power. In October, Romania joined the Axis and expressed its availability towards a military campaign against the Soviet Union, in order to recapture the provinces ceded in June. After a highly successful summer campaign in 1941 as part of Army Group South, the Romanian Armed Forces achieved its objectives of regaining the territory between the Prut and Dniestr rivers.
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