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The Yugoslav Partisans, [note 1] [11] or the National Liberation Army, [note 2] officially the National Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Yugoslavia, [note 3] [12] was the communist-led anti-fascist resistance to the Axis powers (chiefly Nazi Germany) in occupied Yugoslavia during World War II.
The Yugoslav Partisan movement grew to become the largest resistance force in occupied Europe, with 800,000 men organised in 4 field armies. Eventually the Partisans prevailed against all of their opponents as the official army of the newly founded Democratic Federal Yugoslavia (later Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia).
The map of the Balkans is divided into 12 Occupation Zones, each of which has city spaces, mountains, and hideaways. Each zone is rated for alignment (pro-Axis, pro-partisan or neutral), and how many city spaces must be occupied by pro-Axis forces to prevent a popular revolt. Each city space has a victory point value.
The Partisan–Chetnik War was an armed conflict between the communist Yugoslav Partisans and the monarchist Chetniks which lasted from 1941 (after the end of the Chetnik Partisan Alliance during the Serbian Uprising in the Second World War) until 1945 (the end of the Second World War in Yugoslavia).
Ketskarov was ordered by the Minister of Defense Damyan Velchev to contact the Main Headquarters of the Partisan Movement in order to agree on joint actions against the Germans. Such contact was established in Pehčevo, but due to the behavior of the Partisan representatives, no positive results were achieved. Thus, the Bulgarian army continued ...
Yugoslav partisan Stjepan Filipović shouting "Death to fascism, freedom to the people!" moments before his execution in German-occupied Valjevo. The Yugoslav Partisans or the National Liberation Army (officially the National Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Yugoslavia), was Europe's most effective anti-Nazi resistance movement.
The Partisan movement in Slovenia, though a part of the wider Yugoslav Partisans, was operationally autonomous from the rest of the movement, being geographically separated, and full contact with the remainder of the Partisan army occurred after the breakthrough of Josip Broz Tito's forces through to Slovenia in 1944. [18] [19]
Derivative work of History_of_Yugoslavia.svg by NikNaks. Portions used contain parts of: Blank_map_of_Europe_1929-1938.svg and Blank_map_of_Europe_1956-1990.svg by Alphathon. These are in turn were derived from Blank map of Europe (with disputed regions).svg by maix, W!B:, Zirland, MrWeeble, CarolSpears, TimothyBourke, Collard, F7, Alphathon ...