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Kingdom of Yugoslavia: Croat civilians killed by the cavalry regiment "Car Dušan Silni" of the Royal Yugoslav Army in response to a Croat fifth column insurrection in Bjelovar. [18] Derventa massacre: 11–13 April 1941 Derventa: 17 Kingdom of Yugoslavia: Croat civilians killed by retreating Royal Yugoslav Army soldiers. [19] Slavonska Požega ...
World War II in Yugoslavia; Part of the European theatre of World War II: Clockwise from top left: Ante Pavelić visits Adolf Hitler at the Berghof; Stjepan Filipović hanged by the occupation forces; Draža Mihailović confers with his troops; a group of Chetniks with German soldiers in a village in Serbia; Josip Broz Tito with members of the British mission
The main reason was that none of the subordinate national groups, including Slovenes and Croats, were prepared to fight in defence of a Serbian Yugoslavia. Also, so that the Slovenes did not feel abandoned, defences were built on Yugoslavia's northern border when the natural line of defence was much further south, based on the rivers Sava and ...
In the 1980s, calculations of World War II victims in Yugoslavia were made by the Serb statistician Bogoljub Kočović and the Croat demographer Vladimir Žerjavić. Tomasevich described their studies as being objective and reliable. [210] Kočović estimated that 370,000 Serbs, both combatants and civilians, died in the NDH during the war.
2 World War II. 3 Cold War (1946–1991) 4 Croatian War (1991–1995) ... This is a list of massacres in Yugoslavia during the 20th century. Inter-war period (1919–41)
The communist purges in Serbia in 1944–1945 are atrocities [1] that were committed by members of the Yugoslav Partisan Movement and the post-war communist authorities after they gained control over Serbia, against people perceived as war criminals, quislings and ideological opponents.
End of World War II in Europe (concurrently with the Western Front) Soviet Union occupies Eastern Europe and establishes pro-Soviet Communist regimes in various countries (including Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and East Germany) Establishment of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia
NOTE: Yugoslavia broke apart in the 1990s to form the following 5 countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina; Croatia; North Macedonia; Slovenia; Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY); In 2003, the FRY was reconstituted as the federation of Serbia and Montenegro.