Hey Guys,
In a world where Mussolini doesn't join Hitler in the Second World War, say Italy is ceded Eritrea and trade rights in Tunisia, could we see a Yugoslav Civil War in the 1940's?
I confess I'm no expert on Yugoslavia, in fact I know next-to-nothing about the nation other than it was incredibly divided along ethnic lines. Now without an Italian invasion of the country I take it Mussolini would likely fund nationalist organisations, and obviously without an Italian invasion a German attack probably won't happen either. So, could ethnic tensions be riled up enough by Mussolini for Yugoslavia to collapse into a civil war?
If so when would it, and how would surrounding nations react? Let's say WW2 goes around the same way it did IOTL with a big butterfly net, or at most it lasted a few months longer. Would Mussolini use the civil war as an excuse to try and take Dalmatia and Kosovo?