Bulgarian Intervention
On April 6, 1941, despite having officially joined the Axis Powers, the Bulgarian government maintained a course of military passivity during the initial stages of the invasion of Yugoslavia and the Battle of Greece. As German, Italian, and Hungarian troops crushed Yugoslavia and Greece, the Bulgarians remained on the side-lines. The Yugoslav government surrendered on April 17. The Greek government was to hold out until April 30. On April 20, the period of Bulgarian passivity ended. The Bulgarian Army entered Greek territory, with the goal of restoring its pre-World War I outlet to the Aegean Sea in Thrace. Bulgarian troops also occupied the Greek province of Eastern Macedonia and much of eastern Serbia, where the so-called Vardar Banovina was divided between Bulgaria and the Italians.
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