Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Har zuwa ƙarshen 1940 Hitler ya yi fatan kafa mulkin Jamus na zaman lafiya a kan Balkans a matsayin wani ɓangare na kayan aikinsa, amma bayan da Soviet ta mallaki Bessarabia da arewacin Bukovina daga Romania a ƙarshen Yuni, hannunsa ya tilasta. A ranar 7 ga Oktoba Jamus ta mamaye Romania don toshe Sojojin Soviet da kuma samun damar zuwa filayen mai na Ploiești. Bayan mummunar mamayar Italiya a Girka
a ranar 28 ga Oktoba Birtaniya ta shiga cikin yarjejeniyar Anglo-Greek Mutual Aid Agreement, ta mamaye Crete da kuma kafa filayen jiragen sama a cikin bombardment nesa na Romanian oilfields. A ƙarshen Nuwamba Hungary da Romania sun rattaba hannu kan Yarjejeniyar Tripartite, suna shiga cikin ikon Axis kuma, kodayake Yugoslavia da farko ta ƙi sa hannu, Hitler yanzu yana da iko da yawancin albarkatun noma na Great Hungarian Plain da kuma man fetur na Romania.