The military coup 27th March 1941 in Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia was performed by a group of senior Yugoslav Army officers headed by Brigadier General Military Aviation Borivoje Mirković. The coup was successful and they managed to overthrow the three-member royal governorship: Prince Paul Karadjordjević, Dr. Radenko Stanković, Dr. Ivo Perović, the premiere Dragiša Cvetković and vice prime minister Vlatko Mačekwho has two days earlier signed the Vienna Protocol on the Accession of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia the Tripartite Pact. The military conspirators were brought to power of King Peter II Karadjordjević and formed the government on whose head is found one of them, the commander of the Air Force General Dušan Simović, and for deputy prime minister Slobodan Jovanović. The military conspirators were encouraged for a coup by some anti-Nazi opposition political parties and the military promises the United Kingdom, which were then at war with Germany. Impetus conspirators for the coup is gave Moscow, which are that time wanted to delay the German attack on the Soviet Union, which is widely prepared.
Based on the agreement of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin, Germany invaded Poland on 1 September, with the Soviet Union invading the east of Poland on 17th September 1939. On the 18 September German and Russian troops met at Brest-Listovsk (in that place is still a Polish eastern border). Poland was divided between Germany and the Soviet Union. Hitler and Stalin continued their war plans on 30 September 1939, when the Soviet Union, without declaring war, invaded Finland and is annexed the Baltic states. The Soviet Union won the Battle for Finland in spring 1940. At the same time Hitler, on 9 April 1940, successfully invaded Denmark (Battle of Denmark) and Norway (Battle of Norway) and on 10 May the Netherlands (Battle of the Netherlands), Belgium (Battle of Belgium) and France (Battle of France). Immediately after invading France the Germans began to prepare for an attack on Britain. The Battle of Britain lasted until the end of 1940, when Hitler was forced to abandon his plans for an invasion.
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