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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 National Movement (Serbo-Croatian: Југословенски народни покрет, romanized: Jugoslavenski narodni pokret), also known as the United Militant Labour Organization (Serbo-Croatian: Здружена борбена организација рада, romanized: Združena borbena organizacija rada, or Zbor / Збор [17]), was a Yugoslav fascist movement and ...
Flag of the Yugoslav Partisans and Democratic Federal Yugoslavia. The National Committee for the Liberation of Yugoslavia (Serbo-Croatian: Nacionalni komitet oslobođenja Jugoslavije, Slovene: Nacionalni komite osvoboditve Jugoslavije, NKOJ), also known as the Yugoslav Committee of National Liberation, was the World War II provisional executive body of the Democratic Federal Yugoslavia ...
It was the main command and staff body of the Yugoslav Partisans, with Josip Broz Tito at its head. Initially titled Partisan Chief Headquarters when it was created on 27 June 1941, it was renamed at the Stolice conference of 26–27 September 1941. Its full name became the Supreme Headquarters of the People's Liberation Partisan Detachments.
On 26 and 27 November, [18] the pan-Yugoslav Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ) was established in the town at the initiative of Tito and the KPJ. At its founding session, the AVNOJ adopted the principle of a multi-ethnic federal state as the basis for the country's future government [ 19 ] but did not ...
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (CK KPJ) appointed the Committee on 17 November. [7] Its establishment had been initiated by the leadership of the National Liberation Movement for Serbia, with consent of the National Liberation Movement of Yugoslavia (NOP Jugoslavije, the war-time KPJ). [2]
Operation Floxo / Floydforce was the name given to the British Army intervention unit sent to Yugoslavia in October 1944. Its main objective was to aid Yugoslav Partisans in preventing German withdrawal from Greece and Albania via Montenegro, and "to give the greatest possible artillery support to the Yugoslav National Army of Liberation". [43]
In 1945, with the Partisans winning the war, the Unitary People's Liberation Front was reorganized and renamed the People's Front of Yugoslavia (Narodni Front, NOF). Under this name, the front won the postwar Yugoslav elections (as the sole participant), [ 1 ] [ 2 ] after which it was soon renamed the Socialist Alliance of Working People of ...