 Kuenderera mberi kweiyi ndima - Fascist Italy pakutanga yakanga yazivisa hondo ndokupinda muGreece muna Gumiguru 1940, asi Hondo yeHellenic yakakwanisa kudzorera masimba anopinda muAlbania yakavakidzana, ipapo mudziviriri weItaly. Germany yeNazi yakapindira nokuda kweshamwari yayo kumaodzanyemba kweEurope. Nepo ruzhinji rweHondo yeHellenic rwakanga rwakatamiswa pamberi peAlbania kuti rudzivirire kusagadzikana kweItaly kusagadzikana, chirongwa cheGerman Blitzkrieg chakatanga muna Kubvumbi 1941, uye muna Chikumi nekukunda kweKreteGirisi yakakundwa ndokubatwa. Hurumende yeGirisi yakaenda kuutapwa, uye hurumende yeAxis yaishanda pamwe chete yakaumbwa munyika yacho. Nharaunda yeGreece yakakamurwa kuva nzvimbo dzokutora dzinotungamirirwa neAxis masimba, nemaGermany anotarisira nzvimbo dzinokosha dzenyika ivo pachavo, kusanganisira Atene, Thessaloniki uye strategic Aegean Islands. Mamwe matunhu enyika akapiwa vasonganiri veGermany, Italy neBulgaria. 