The next day, Paveli signed the Contracts of Rome with Mussolini, ceding Dalmatia to Italy and fixing the permanent borders between the NDH and Italy. This was accepted by Hitler and, within two weeks, there were more than enough volunteers to form a division the Blue Division (Divisin Azul) under General Agustn Muoz Grandes. After the Italian armistice, a vacuum of power opened up in Albania. 57 terms. Arrow Cross officers helped Adolf Eichmann re-activate the deportation proceedings from which the Jews of Budapest had thus far been spared, sending some 80,000 Jews out of the city on slave labour details and many more straight to death camps. [35] Thus the Allied powers outnumbered the Axis powers by 2.7 to 1. In 1941 during the Italian invasion of Greece, Mussolini requested that Germany invade Yugoslavia to save the Italian forces in Greece. When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, Franco immediately offered to form a unit of military volunteers to join the invasion. When Italy declared war on Britain, Rashid Ali had maintained ties with the Italians. Nazi Germany occupied the Rhineland in 1936 and annexed Austria and the Sudetenland two years later. [20] In response to Gring's visit with Mussolini, Dollfuss immediately went to Italy to counter any German diplomatic headway. The Rome Berlin Axis was made to ensure that high powers in countries, such as Rome, Berlin and Tokyo, if attacked would have sufficient help from other countries, who would help defend. Soon after, Emperor Bo i voided the 1884 treaty with France and Trn Trng Kim, a historian, became prime minister. Certainly the success of Allied collaboration was in large measure the outcome of the personal contact established between the chiefs of state and general staffs of the United States and the United Kingdom and subsequently of the Soviet Union at Casablanca, Quebec, Teheran, and Yalta. An ambitious rearmament program was impossible because of Italy's limited reserves in gold and foreign currencies and lack of raw materials. Panay, then situated, together with various other American and British warships, on the Yangtze River. Denmark broke diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union and signed the Anti-Comintern Pact in 1941. German troops entered the country on 10 October 1941, officially to train the Romanian Army. Renewed offensives in June and November saw the Chinese retreat into Yunnan.[153]. They also invaded Malaya and Hong Kong. The German army entered Paris on 14 June 1940, following the battle of France. The platform of the Ustae movement proclaimed that Croatians had been oppressed by the Serb-dominated Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and that Croatians deserved to have an independent nation after years of domination by foreign empires. On 12 July 1941, they proclaimed the "Kingdom of Montenegro" under the protection of Italy. On November 25, 1936, Germanys foreign minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and Japans ambassador in Berlin, Count Mushakoji, signed an agreement, the so-called Anti-Comintern Pact: since the Comintern, or Third International, based in Moscow, existed in order to disintegrate and subdue existing states, Germany and Japan undertook to consult with one another on the necessary preventive measures and to carry these through in close collaboration..