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Балканске политичке прилике и априлски слом Вардарске бановине
Political Situation in the Balkans and the April Breakdown of Vardarska Banovina

Author(s): Vladan Z. Jovanović
Subject(s): Military history, Political history, International relations/trade, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Institut za noviju istoriju Srbije
Keywords: The Balkans; Vardarska Banovina; Macedonia; Kosovo; April war;
Summary/Abstract: Despite the Yugoslav-Bulgarian Pact of Eternal Friendship (1937), bilateral relations have endured conservative solutions. Therefore, both Macedonian question and the revision of the Yugoslav-Bulgarian state border were reopened again, while Yugoslav-Italian relations had been still stuck in Albania. Consequently, after the Italian army annexed Albania in 1939, Yugoslavia became surrounded by hostile regimes. Italian attack on Greece, in October 1940, threatened to undermine Thessaloniki, the only Yugoslav connection with the free world. Yugoslavia started to supply Greece with arms and foods, which made Macedonian cities undefended targets of retribution. As the war approached the borders of Yugoslavia, separatist movements in Bulgaria and Albania revived, including the „resurrection“ of IMRO, which facilitated the rapid German-Bulgarian invasion of Macedonia, as well as the fall of Belgrade.

  • Page Range: 269-290
  • Page Count: 22
  • Publication Year: 2014
  • Language: Serbian