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  2. Yugoslav Partisans - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. League of Communists of Yugoslavia - Wikipedia

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    The League of Communists of Yugoslavia, [a] known until 1952 as the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, [b] was the founding and ruling party of SFR Yugoslavia.It was formed in 1919 as the main communist opposition party in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and after its initial successes in the elections, it was proscribed by the royal government and was at times harshly and violently ...

  4. Partisan–Chetnik War (1941–1945) - Wikipedia

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    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).

  5. From Macedonia to America: Civics lessons from the former ...

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    Americans protesting police violence may find inspiration in the activism of Macedonian citizens in the last years of Communist rule in Yugoslavia. In August 1987, Communist party leaders imposed ...

  6. World War II in Yugoslavia - Wikipedia

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    The partisan movement may have counted up to 150,000 fighting men and women (perhaps five per cent women) in close and inextricable co-operation with several million peasants, the people of the country. Partisan numbers were liable to increase rapidly. [59] The Croatian Home Guard reached its maximum size at the end of 1943, when it had 130,000 ...

  7. United States–Yugoslavia relations - Wikipedia

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    United States–Yugoslavia relations were the historical foreign relations of the United States with both Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1918–1941) and Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1945–1992). During the existence of the SFRY, relations oscillated from mutual ignorance, antagonism to close cooperation, and significant direct American ...

  8. Breakup of Yugoslavia - Wikipedia

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    Yugoslavia occupied a significant portion of the Balkan Peninsula, including a strip of land on the east coast of the Adriatic Sea, stretching southward from the Bay of Trieste in Central Europe to the mouth of Bojana as well as Lake Prespa inland, and eastward as far as the Iron Gates on the Danube and Midžor in the Balkan Mountains, thus including a large part of Southeast Europe, a region ...

  9. Partisan (military) - Wikipedia

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    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.