Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A farkon 1939, yayin da duniya ta mai da hankali kan zaluncin Adolf Hitler a kan Czechoslovakia, Mussolini ya kalli Masarautar Albania, a ƙetaren Tekun Adriatic daga Italiya. Sojojin Italiya sun mamaye Albania
a ranar 7 ga Afrilu 1939 kuma da sauri ya mallaki karamar kasar. Tun kafin mamayewar, Albania ta kasance Italiya ce ke mulkin siyasa; bayan mamayewar an sanya shi a hukumance wani ɓangare na Italiya kuma sarkin Italiya ya ɗauki kambin Albania. Tare da shiga tsakani a cikin yakin basasa na Spain da mamayewar Abyssinia, mamayewar Albania wani bangare ne na gudummawar Italiya ga rushewar tsaro na gama gari wanda League of Nations ya kafa bayan Yaƙin Duniya na I. A matsayin haka, ya kasance wani ɓangare na "farko ga Yaƙin Duniya na II".