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1939 On April 7th, another fascist country in Europe, Italy, began to invade Albania, and then attacked Greece on 19401October 28th. But Italy failed to occupy Greece. Instead, the Greeks invaded Albania at 1940+0 1. But then Germany began to intervene in the war. 1941April 6, the Germans began to fight the Greeks and attack yugoslavia at the same time. Although the British supported Greece, they could not win in the end. Nazi German troops entered Athens on April 27th. After that, Germany began to attack Crete. 1 June, the Battle of Crete ended, and German paratroopers successfully seized the island from the British. But this operation was not very smooth for Germany, and Germany never used paratroopers to attack again.

On June 1 day, the last armed forces of Britain and Greece retreated to Egypt. After the Balkans fell into Nazi hands, Hitler was finally able to attack the Soviet Union without any worries.

The Battle of North Africa began at 1940, and a small group of British troops repelled the attack of Italian troops from Libya. With the arrival of German troops led by erwin rommel, the 194 1 year war reached its climax in Alaman. From July 1942 to July 27th, the First World War broke out in Alaman. The Germans successfully occupied Alaman, which was the last strategic place before Alexandria and Suez Canal. However, just like in the Soviet Union, the German logistics supply could not keep up, which gave the British an opportunity to stop the attack.

65438+1October 23rd to165438+1October 3rd was the second battle of El Alamein, and this time the British took the initiative. Because the German-Italian allied forces occupied Alaman, it is possible to directly occupy the whole of Egypt, then threaten the Suez Canal and the Middle East, and cut off the links between Britain and India and other overseas colonies. The British must try to stop the attack of German and Italian troops. 10001On the night of October 23rd, more than 100 guns of the British army 1000 stormed the German and Italian troops. More than a week later,1000000 German and Italian troops lost more than half, the defense line collapsed and they were forced to flee to the west. Rommel retreated all the way to Tunisia.

1942165438+1On October 8th, British and American troops landed in Morocco and Algeria during the Torch Operation. The local Vichy French army had little resistance. In the end, German and Italian troops were attacked by Algerian and Libyan troops. Allied forces attacked from both east and west at the same time, and in May 1943, the German and Italian troops were completely driven out of Africa. On the battlefield in North Africa, 250,000 Axis soldiers were captured.