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The Battle of Greece referred to the invasion of Greece by Nazi Germany during World War II.

Forewarning
On 6 March 1941, the diary of Bernice Summerfield fell into the hands of Nazi Colonel Oskar Steinmann. The diary contained information about World War II to assisted Summerfield during her travels through time. Although Steinmann dismissed her claims of being a time traveller, the diary's detailed accounts of German military operations against the British in Greece puzzled him. He briefly considered that it may have been an account from World War I, but accurate accounts of the earlier invasion of Romania and the Fall of Tobruk, both of which had recently taken place, suggested otherwise. (PROSE: Just War)

Invasion
A German campaign in Greece was later launched, taking place in April 1941 and seeing the involvement of the British. Summerfield's diary said of the campaign on 19 April: (PROSE: Just War)

"The British had been outflanked by the Germans in the Pindus Mountains and were forced to withdraw. Four days later, on 23 April, the evacuation of Greece began."

- Bernice Summerfield's diary

Subsequently, mainland Greece and the Greek Islands all fell under German control, (PROSE: Deadly Reunion) becoming distant outposts of the Third Reich. (AUDIO: Persuasion)

Aftermath
Partisan movements emerged after the occupation. They constructed paths to allow for movement to be made in secret around the country, and into neighbouring Bulgaria, (PROSE: The Touch of the Nurazh) which the Germans had also entered at the start of March. (PROSE: Just War, AUDIO: Just War)

Towards the end of the war, the Germans were pushed back out of Eastern Europe by the ascendant Soviet Union. As the Axis forces retreated, communism spread into Germany, Austria, Poland, Hungary, Yugoslavia (PROSE: Endgame) and Czechoslovakia. (COMIC: The Broken Man) Greece threatened to follow suit shortly after the war when a communist rebellion broke out in the north of the mainland. Britain, although opting not to become directly involved because of domestic political issues, sent His Majesty's Intelligence Corps to the Peloponnese to develop updated maps of the islands. The existing British maps had become outdated following the British withdrawal in 1941 and they did not wan the communists to be able to take advantage of this. (PROSE: Deadly Reunion)

Chinese Civil War
The Chinese Civil War was a period of internal conflict in China born out of the decline and fall of the ancient Chinese Empire. The Kuomintang, the Nationalist movement, originally came to power after success in the 1911 revolution, which turned China into a republic. However, their fledgling rule was quickly challenged by the growth of the Communist movement.

Reaching an impasse, the conflict unleashed a period of disorder throughout China. Sensing an opportunity to expand her own empire, Japan launched its own expansionist campaign in China which eventually led to the Second Sino-Japanese War. After World War II, the Communists took control of China.

Fall of the Chinese Empire
(PROSE: The Shadow of Weng-Chiang)

Chinese Republic
(PROSE: The Shadow of Weng-Chiang)

Threat of Japan
(PROSE: The Shadow of Weng-Chiang)

Conclusion and aftermath
In 1951, following Japan's defeat in the Pacific War, the Communists had come to power. (PROSE: Endgame) (PROSE: World Game)