 Nyorai kuenderera mberi kweiyi ndima - Pakati pa1938 na1940, zvichitevera kuyananisa kweGerman-Italy muFirst neSecond Vienna Awards, nekupinda kweHungary muCarpatho-Ukraine, Hungary yakawedzera nharaunda yayo. Yakapinza zvikamu zveCzechoslovakia yokumaodzanyemba, Carpathian Ruthenia uye chikamu chokuchamhembe cheTransylvania, icho Umambo hweRomania hwakapa. Imwe yenzvimbo dzemadzinza nemagariro dzakachinja ruoko pakati peRomania neHungary panguva ino yaive Nyika yeSzekely. Rutsigiro urwo Hungary yakagamuchira kubva kuGermany nokuda kweidzi gadziridzo dzomuganhu rwakaita kuti ukama pakati penyika mbiri huve hwakasimba zvikuru. Musi wa 20 Mbudzi 1940, Hungary yakabatana zviri pamutemo neAxis Tripartite Pact. Musi waDecember 12, 1940, pachirongwa cheMutungamiriri weHurumende, Count Pál Teleki, Hungary yakapedzisa chibvumirano cheushamwari uye chisiri chekurwisa neYugoslavia. Kunyange zvazvo pfungwa yacho yakanga yatsigirwa neGermany neItaly, kusainwa kwechibvumirano chaiko hakuna kudaro, sezvo kurwisa kweGermany kwakanga kwakarongwa kweGreece kwaizova nyore kana Yugoslavia yaigona kubviswa. Pashure pokubudirira kwechiuto kweYugoslavia kwaMarch 27, 1941, apo vaGerman vakakumbira Mutongi weHungary, Miklós Horthy, kuti abvumidzwe kutanga imwe yemapurisa avo akashongedzwa vachishandisa nzvimbo yeHungary, Teleki akakundikana kudzora Mutongi. Achigumisa kuti Hungary yakazvisvibisa isingadzoreki nokuva kudivi revaGermany kurwisana nevaYugoslav, Teleki akazvipfura. Horthy akazivisa Hitler manheru iwayo kuti Hungary yaizochengeta chibvumirano choushamwari neYugoslavia, kunyange zvazvo zvimwe chaizorega kushanda kana Croatia ikabuda uye Yugoslavia ikarega kuvapo. 