Information
Name: Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and northern Bukovina
Type: Event
Start: 1940
End: 1940
Parents: World War II (Eastern Theatre)
Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and northern Bukovina: All Data
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The Soviet Union had planned to accomplish the annexation of Bessarabia and northern Bukovina with a full-scale invasion, but the Romanian government, responding to the Soviet ultimatum delivered on June 26, 1940, agreed to withdraw from the territories in order to avoid a military conflict.































