The failure Earnings_and_losses of the Axis forces to decisively engage the Partisans during these operations necessitated Causation a further major offensive , Operation Trio , in the area immediately south of where Operations Southeast Croatia and Ozren had taken place Process_start .

It was carried out Action in two phases within eastern Bosnia from 20 April to 13 May 1942 , with Ustaše militia and Croatian Home Guard forces Military_operation taking part Dispersal on the Axis side .

Together they comprised Cause_to_be_included one element of the Axis effort known as the Third Enemy Offensive ( ) in post-war Yugoslav historiography .

Both insurgent factions avoided Preventing_or_letting fighting the Axis and NDH forces Military_operation , instead focusing Aiming on fighting each other .

From 1944 each side targeted Aiming the power vacuum resulting from the end Process_end of Axis occupation ( 1941–1944 ) during World War II .

The Allied invasion Attack of Sicily , codenamed Operation Military_operation Husky , was a major campaign Military_operation of World War Hostile_encounter II , in which the Allies took Conquering the island of Sicily from the Axis powers ( the Kingdom of Italy and Nazi Germany ) .

Strategically , `` Husky '' achieved Achieve the goals set out Military_operation for it by Allied planners ; the Allies drove Motion Axis air , land and naval forces Motion from the island and the Mediterranean sea lanes were opened Openness for Allied merchant ships for the first time since 1941 .

The Black Sea Campaigns Military_operation were the operations Military_operation of the Axis and Soviet naval forces in the Black Sea and its coastal regions during World War Hostile_encounter II between 1941 and 1944 , including in support Supporting of the land forces .

The Axis forces in the Black Sea consisted of the Romanian and Bulgarian Navies together with German and Italian units transported Sending to the area via rail and Canal .

The Kozara Offensive , also known as Operation West-Bosnien by the Axis , was fought Hostile_encounter in 1942 on and around the mountain of Kozara in northwestern Bosnia .

It is estimated Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale that during the battle , the Partisans lost Death about 1,700 soldiers , while the Axis forces lost Death about 7,000 .

After the Axis offensive forces withdrew , parts of the lost area were regained in September 1942 .

The First Battle of El Alamein and the Battle of Alam el Halfa had prevented Preventing_or_letting the Axis from advancing further into Egypt .

The Allied victory was the beginning of the end of the Western Desert Campaign , eliminating the Axis threat to Egypt , the Suez Canal and the Middle Eastern and Persian oil fields .

The battle revived Recovering the morale of the Allies , being the first big success against the Axis since Operation Crusader in late 1941 .

It was a strategic bombing Attack mission Military_operation and part of the `` oil campaign '' to deny petroleum-based fuel to the Axis .

The Axis operation prompted Causation the Partisan Supreme Command to enact Action its plans to drive Motion toward eastern Herzegovina , Sandžak and Montenegro .

Other Partisan formations , the 1st Croatian and 1st Bosnian Corps , managed Causation to evade Escaping Axis blows and , despite significant losses Earnings_and_losses , reclaim most of the territory they had held Defending before the beginning Process_start of the operation .

Operation Crusader ( 18 November – 30 December 1941 ) was a military operation Military_operation during the Second World War by the British Eighth Army with Allied contingents , against the Axis forces in North Africa commanded by `` Generalleutnant '' Erwin Rommel .

The operation was intended to by-pass Motion Axis defences on the Egyptian–Libyan fronter , defeat Conquering the Axis armoured forces and relieve the 1941 Siege of Tobruk .

The operation was intended to by-pass Motion Axis defences on the Egyptian–Libyan fronter , defeat Conquering the Axis armoured forces and relieve the 1941 Siege of Tobruk .

On 18 November 1941 , the Eighth Army launched Process_start a surprise attack Attack but the British armoured force became Becoming dispersed and suffered Bodily_harm 530 tank losses against Axis losses of about 100 tanks up to 22 November .

On 7 December , Rommel withdrew Escaping the Axis forces to the Gazala position and on 15 December ordered Request a withdrawal to El Agheila .

Because the bridge was the only crossing on the river and would give Giving the British Eighth Army access to the Catania plain , its capture Conquering was expected to speed Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale the advance Motion and lead to Causation the defeat Conquering of the Axis forces in Sicily .

On the Axis side , the Germans launched attacks Attack at sea in the autumn and winter against British aircraft carriers and destroyers , sinking Motion_directional several including the carrier with the loss of 519 lives .

Two days prior to its ousting , the Cvetković government had signed Sign_agreement the Vienna Protocol on the Accession of Yugoslavia to the Tripartite Pact ( Axis ) .

The coup led directly to the German-led Axis invasion Attack of Yugoslavia .

The importance of the putsch and subsequent invasion in delaying Operation Barbarossa , the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union , is disputed Quarreling but most scholars now consider that it had no significant impact Influence on the eventual outcome of that campaign .

The Germans were joined Becoming_a_member by submarines of the Italian Royal Navy ( `` Regia Marina '' ) after their Axis ally Italy entered Arriving the war Hostile_encounter on June 10 , 1940 .

In essence , the Battle Hostile_encounter of the Atlantic was a tonnage war Hostile_encounter : the Allied struggle Resolve_problem to supply Supply Britain and the Axis attempt to stem Preventing_or_letting the flow of merchant shipping Sending that enabled Preventing_or_letting Britain to keep Temporary_stay fighting Hostile_encounter .

From 1942 onward , the Axis also sought to prevent Preventing_or_letting the build-up of Allied supplies Supply and equipment in the British Isles in preparation GetReady for the invasion Attack of occupied Hold Europe .

The defeat Conquering of the U-boat threat was a prerequisite for pushing Motion back the Axis .