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Balkans campaign (World War II)

October 28, 1940 – June 1, 1941 · Albania

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Italy invaded Greece in 1940 and failed, and Germany then invaded Yugoslavia and Greece in April 1941. The Axis occupied the Balkans, including Crete, by June 1941.

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Axis

Axis powers
Italy
Albania
Germany
Hungary
Pietro Badoglio military commander Ugo Cavallero military commander Walther von Brauchitsch military commander Wilhelm List military commander Vittorio Ambrosio military commander Kurt Student military commander

Allies

Greece
Yugoslavia
United Kingdom
Australia
New Zealand
Alexandros Papagos military commander Ioannis Metaxas military commander Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg military commander Dušan Simović military commander Milorad Petrović military commander Thomas Blamey military commander

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