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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 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.
Co-belligerents Finland (until 1944) Victory. 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)
Yugoslav Wars; Part of the breakup of Yugoslavia and the post–Cold War era: Clockwise from top-left: Officers of the Slovenian National Police Force escort captured soldiers of the Yugoslav People's Army back to their unit during the Slovenian War of Independence; a destroyed M-84 tank during the Battle of Vukovar; anti-tank missile installations of the Serbia-controlled Yugoslav People's ...
A military engagement took place in Yugoslavia (today's Slovenia), on 14 and 15 May, known as the Battle of Poljana. The fighting during the Georgian uprising on Texel in the Netherlands lasted until 20 May. The last battle in Europe, the Battle of Odžak between the Yugoslav Army and the Croatian Armed Forces, concluded on 25 May. The ...
Prior to 1991, Yugoslavia's armed forces were amongst the best-equipped in Europe. [11] Yugoslavia was a unique state, straddling both the East and West. Moreover, its president, Josip Broz Tito, was one of the fundamental founders of the "third world" or "group of 77" which acted as an alternative to the superpowers.
The Yugoslav Partisans, [note 1] [11] officially the National Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Yugoslavia [note 2] [12] (often shortened as the National Liberation Army [note 3]) was the communist-led anti-fascist resistance to the Axis powers (chiefly Nazi Germany) in occupied Yugoslavia during World War II.
The Fate of the Jews in South-Eastern Europe During the First Years of the War Archived 2012-01-11 at the Wayback Machine on the Yad Vashem website; Summaries WORLD WAR II in the BALKANS; Timeline of the Balkans Campaign; World War Two Online Newspaper Archives — The Invasion of the Balkans: Yugoslavia, Greece and Crete, 1940-1941