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During World War II, several provinces of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia corresponding to the modern-day state of Serbia were occupied by the Axis Powers from 1941 to 1944. Most of the area was occupied by the Wehrmacht and was organized as separate territory under control of the German Military Administration in Serbia.
A sustained air campaign targeting infrastructure in Serbia and Serbian forces in Kosovo with the aim of getting the 'Serbs out [of Kosovo], peacekeepers in, refugees back' in the eyes of one NATO spokesman. The bombing lasted for nearly 3 months before all sides accepted the Kumanovo Treaty which ended the Kosovo War and the deployment of KFOR.
Most of Serbia and the Banat became a German zone of occupation while other areas of Yugoslavia were annexed by neighboring Axis countries, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Albania and Bulgaria. Croatia became the Independent State of Croatia ( Serbo-Croatian Latin : Nezavisna Država Hrvatska , or NDH), an Axis puppet state created during the invasion ...
In April 2011 Serbia's request for an Individual Partnership Action Plan was approved by NATO, [11] and Serbia submitted a draft IPAP in May 2013. [12] The agreement was finalized on 15 January 2015. [13] [14] It regularly participates in its military maneuvers, and hosted a joint civil protection exercise with NATO in 2018. [15] [16]
The Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia (German: Gebiet des Militärbefehlshabers in Serbien; Serbian: Подручје Војног заповедника у Србији, romanized: Područje vojnog zapovednika u Srbiji) was the area of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia that was placed under a military government of occupation by the Wehrmacht following the invasion, occupation and ...
Italian imperialist ambitions under fascism during the 2nd World War. Unnamed Italian plans to invade Yugoslavia in April 1940 (intended to be an outside conflict of the War between Germany and the Allies, never carried out due to joining Italy to the German war against Britain and France) [26] [27]
Additionally, NATO experienced territorial expansion during this period without adding new member states when Zone A of the Free Territory of Trieste was annexed by Italy in 1954, and the territory of the former East Germany was added with the reunification of Germany in 1990. NATO further expanded after the Cold War, adding the Czech Republic ...
Beginning of the Albanian Resistance against Serbia; Serbian-Ottoman War (1352) Part of the Byzantine civil war of 1352–1357: Serbian Empire Bulgarian Empire Supported by: John V Palaiologos: Ottoman Beylik Supported by: John VI Kantakouzenos: Defeat. Serbia loses the first major battle of the Ottomans which were increasingly becoming a ...