The 1950s brought out the worst folly's of the newly christened Greater Germanic Reich's ambitions for the Mediterranean, ambitions which would end disastrously for much of Southern Europe, leading to the equally disastrous German economic crash. This second disaster had a far more tangible effect upon the Balkans, where it set off a chain of economic crashes, from Hungary to Slovakia, to the ripples even being felt in Bulgaria herself. This weakness in the more German-reliant nation states of the Balkans was soon exploited by the less reliant Kingdom of Romania, who at first entered into a state of war with Hungary and soon after launched a war with Serbia, seizing territory from the two states, particularly the lands they formerly relinquished to Hungary as a result of the Second Vienna Award in 1940, and the Serbian Banat respectively. With a distracted Germany that was far too pre-occupied with the now raging West Russian War to intervene or even enforce demands it had made of Romania when it sacrificed Hungary to Romanian ambitions, Bulgaria now found itself between the fragile yet dangerous Triumvirate and an expansionist Romania.
The 1950s brought out the worst folly's of the newly christened Greater Germanic Reich's ambitions for the Mediterranean, ambitions which would end disastrously for much of Southern Europe, leading to the equally disastrous German economic crash. This second disaster had a far more tangible effect upon the Balkans, where it set off a chain of economic crashes, from Hungary to Slovakia, to the ripples even being felt in Bulgaria herself.
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