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The Axis power invaded on April 6, 1941 and Yugoslavia signed an armistice on April 17. This was actually a fairly important episode in the larger war, because this pause to deal with Yugoslavia, and the redeployment after took time, which delayed the German attack on the Soviet Union. The Germans were not able to launch their attack on the Soviet Union until June 22, 1941. As the crushing cold of the Russian winter closed in during early December, German forces were in the western suburbs of Moscow. Had the Germans been able to take advantage of the wasted weeks of campaigning weather in the spring, they might have taken Moscow and possibly won the war in the east before "General Winter" stopped them.

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