 Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Pashure pokubatanidzwa kwa 1938Pashure pokunge Austria yaparadzwa neNazi Germany, Yugoslavia yakava nomuganhu neThird Reich uye yakava pasi pokudzvinyirirwa kunowedzera sezvo vavakidzani vayo vakava vakabatana nemasimba eAxis. Muna April 1939, Yugoslavia yakawana muganhu wechipiri neItaly apo nyika iyoyo yakapinda ndokuita Albania yakavakidzana nayo. Pakatanga Hondo Yenyika II, hurumende yeYugoslavia yakazivisa kusava kwayo nekwaakarerekera. Pakati paSeptember naNovember 1940, Hungary neRomania zvakabatana neAxis, uye Italy yakapinda muGreece ichibva kuAlbania. Kubvira panguva iyoyo, Yugoslavia yakanga yakakomberedzwa chose chose namasimba eAxis namasangano awo, uye chimiro chayo chokusatora rutivi kuhondo chakava pasi pedzvinyiriro huru. Pakupera kwaFebruary 1941, Bulgaria yakabatana neAxis. Zuva rakatevera racho, mauto eGermany akapinda muBulgaria achibva kuRomania, achida kuvhara mhete yakapoteredza Yugoslavia. Nechinangwa chokudzivirira rutivi rwake rwokumaodzanyemba pamberi pokurwiswa kweSoviet Union kwakanga kwava kuda kuitika, Adolf Hitler akatanga kuisa dzvinyiriro huru paYugoslavia kuti ibatanidzwe nemasimba eAxis. Hurumende yeYugoslavia yakasaina chibvumirano cheTripartite Pact, chinyorwa icho chakaumba Axis, mushure mekumwe kunonoka, musi wa25 Kurume 1941. Mazuva maviri gare gare, boka ravakuru vakuru vehondo dzendege dzechiSerb-dzorudzi dzaitsigira nyika dzokuMadokero rakabvisa Muchinda Paul pachigaro mukubvuta hurumende kusina ropa. Vavhiringidzi vacho vakazivisa kuti Muchinda Peter aiva nemakore 17 akanga akura uye vakaunza hurumende yokubatana kworudzi yaitungamirirwa naGeneral Dušan Simović. Kuparadzwa kwacho kwakatsamwisa Hitler, uyo akarayira kupinda muYugoslavia kwakatanga musi wa6 April 1941. 