NATO leaders gave their military commanders the broader authority to attack Yugoslavia at a meeting here that ended early this morning.

German forces attacked Yugoslavia on April 6, 1941, and by April 30 the whole of the Balkan peninsula was in German hands.

But he devoted much of his speech to attacking Yugoslavia for persecuting ethnic Albanians.

The Germans attacked Yugoslavia and Greece simultaneously by Blitzkrieg on April 6, 1941.

In 1941 the Axis Powers attacked Yugoslavia, which collapsed in few days.

Postponing Operation Barbarossa, the Germans simultaneously attacked Yugoslavia and Greece.

Hitler then decided to attack Yugoslavia on 6 April 1941, followed immediately by an invasion of Greece where Mussolini had previously been repelled.

At 5:12 am on 6 April 1941, German, Italian and Hungarian forces attacked Yugoslavia.

By the time the Hungarians crossed the border, the Germans had been attacking Yugoslavia for over a week.

Although the pact was not denounced, Hitler decided to attack Yugoslavia as well as Greece.