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Hungary had joined the Tripartite Pact on 20 November 1940. Hitler took the coup as a personal insult, and was so angered that he was determined, in his words, 'to destroy Yugoslavia militarily and as a state' ( Jugoslawien militГ¤risch und als Staatsgebilde zu zerschlagen) and to do so 'with pitiless harshness' and 'without waiting for possible declarations of loyalty of the new government'. On the same day as the coup he issued FГјhrer Directive 25, which called for Yugoslavia to be treated as a hostile state. Upon hearing news of the coup in Yugoslavia, Hitler called his military advisers to Berlin on 27 March. Military officers (predominantly Serbs) executed a coup d'Г©tat on 27 March 1941, forced the Regent to resign, and declared 17-year-old King Peter II to be of age. This move was highly unpopular with the Serb-dominated officer corps of the military, Serbian organizations such as National Defense and the Chetniks Association, the Serbian Orthodox Church, a large part of the Serbian population as well as liberals and Communists. The Regent, Prince Paul, yielded to this pressure, and declared Yugoslavia's accession to the Pact on 25 March 1941. Hitler then pressured Yugoslavia to join as well.

In 1940 and early 1941, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria all agreed to adhere to the Tripartite Pact and thus join the Axis. Hitler did this not only to restore diminished Axis prestige, but also to prevent Britain from bombing the Romanian PloieИ™ti oilfields from which Nazi Germany obtained most of its oil. German dictator Adolf Hitler recognised the need to go to the aid of his ally, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. In October 1940, Fascist Italy had attacked the Kingdom of Greece only to be forced back into Albania. See also: Greco-Italian War and Yugoslav coup d'Г©tat Along with Italy's stalled invasion of Greece on 28 October 1940, and the German-led invasion of Greece (Operation Marita) and invasion of Crete (Operation Merkur), the invasion of Yugoslavia was part of the German Balkan Campaign (German: Balkanfeldzug). Croatia became the Independent State of Croatia ( Serbo-Croatian Latin: Nezavisna DrЕѕava Hrvatska, or NDH), an Axis puppet state created during the invasion comprising the Srem, Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as the Croatian lands. Most of Serbia and the Banat became a German zone of occupation while other areas of Yugoslavia were annexed by neighboring Axis countries, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Albania and Bulgaria. The Kingdom of Yugoslavia was then occupied and partitioned by the Axis powers. The invasion ended when an armistice was signed on 17 April 1941, based on the unconditional surrender of the Yugoslav army, which came into effect at noon on 18 April. Other scholars have proposed that the fifth column had little effect on the ultimate outcome.

Some scholars have proposed several theories for the Royal Yugoslav Army's sudden collapse, including poor training and equipment, generals eager to secure a quick cessation of hostilities, and a Croatian, Slovenian, and ethnic German fifth columns. A Yugoslav attack into the northern parts of the Italian protectorate of Albania met with initial success, but was inconsequential due to the collapse of the rest of the Yugoslav forces. On the same day, Hungarian forces entered Yugoslav BaДЌka and Baranya, but like the Italians they faced practically no resistance. Italian forces were limited to air and artillery attacks until 11 April, when the Italian army attacked towards Ljubljana (in modern-day Slovenia) and through Istria and Lika and down the Dalmatian coast. These attacks were followed by German thrusts from Romania, Hungary and the Ostmark (modern-day Austria, then part of Germany). The invasion commenced with an overwhelming air attack on Belgrade and facilities of the Royal Yugoslav Air Force (VVKJ) by the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) and attacks by German land forces from southwestern Bulgaria. 25', which Adolf Hitler issued on 27 March 1941, following a Yugoslav coup d'Г©tat that overthrew the pro-Axis government. The order for the invasion was put forward in ' FГјhrer Directive No. The invasion of Yugoslavia, also known as the April War or Operation 25, was a German-led attack on the Kingdom of Yugoslavia by the Axis powers which began on 6 April 1941 during World War II.

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