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103: Highway to the Danger Zone Pt. 1 - Out Along the Edges

History of the Second World War

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The Balkan Pact

Poland and Czechoslovakia would always be roadblocks in front of any wider Eastern pact. The two powers were far more concerned with their own future than that of Poland. Greece, Romania, Turkey and Yugoslavia signed the Balkan Pact in February 1934. At its core the pact dealt with territorial matters, with each nation making a Lakharno esque agreement that the current status quo of the borders was what they supported. Bulgaria refused to sign the agreement because joining the pact would have been an admission that they accepted the borders that had been forced on them after the First World War.

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