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World War II in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia began on 6 April 1941, when the country was invaded and swiftly conquered by Axis forces and partitioned among Germany, Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria and their client regimes. Shortly after Germany attacked the USSR on 22 June 1941, [25] the communist -led republican Yugoslav Partisans, on orders from Moscow ...
Pages in category "Yugoslav generals" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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. Led by Josip Broz Tito, [13] the Partisans are considered to be Europe's most effective ...
Armed forces. In exile, the Royal Yugoslav Forces were initially under the command of General Bogoljub Ilić as minister of the Army, Navy and Air Force and chief of the General Staff, and General Borivoje Mirković as commander of the Air Force. There were initially about 1,000 men in these forces in Cairo.
Draža Mihailović. Dragoljub "Draža" Mihailović[a] (Serbian Cyrillic: Драгољуб "Дража" Михаиловић; 27 April 1893 – 17 July 1946) was a Yugoslav Serb general during World War II. He was the leader of the Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army (Chetniks), a royalist and nationalist movement and guerrilla force ...
The Yugoslav Wars have alternatively been referred to as: "Wars in the Balkans " "Wars/conflicts in the former Yugoslavia" [6][30] "Wars of Yugoslav Secession/Succession" "Third Balkan War": a term which is contained in the title of a book by the British journalist Misha Glenny, the term alludes to the two previous Balkan Wars which were waged from 1912 to 1913. [31] However, some contemporary ...
Pages in category "Yugoslav military personnel of World War II" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Invasion of Yugoslavia. The invasion of Yugoslavia, also known as the April War[a] or Operation 25, [b] was a German -led attack on the Kingdom of Yugoslavia by the Axis powers which began on 6 April 1941 during World War II. The order for the invasion was put forward in " Führer Directive No. 25", which Adolf Hitler issued on 27 March 1941 ...