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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 ...
The war contributed to the popular image of Theodore Roosevelt as a war hero and advanced his career, in 1901 became the 26th president of the United States; Spain sells to Germany its last colonies in the Pacific in 1899; Philippine–American War (1899–1902) Location: Philippines U.S. soldiers during the Battle of Manila. 1899–1902 United ...
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 ...
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The Yugoslav People's Army (JNA/ ЈНА; Macedonian, Montenegrin and Serbian: Југословенска народна армија, Jugoslovenska narodna armija; Croatian and Bosnian: Jugoslavenska narodna armija; Slovene: Jugoslovanska ljudska armada, JLA), also called the Yugoslav National Army, [1] [2] was the military of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and its antecedents ...
The Yugoslavs achieved a breakthrough after a series of hard-fought encounters along the Syrmian Front in late 1944 and early 1945. The newly formed Yugoslav 4th Army, whose elements were present at the pivotal Battle of Knin, spent most of spring advancing north along the Dinaric Alps from their staging grounds on the banks of the Neretva with the intent of reaching the Isonzo and taking ...
Croatia leaves Yugoslavia and becomes an independent country; Croatian forces regain control over most of RSK-held Croatian territory; Croatian forces advance into Bosnia and Herzegovina which leads to the eventual end of the Bosnian War; Yugoslav campaign in Bosnia (1992) Yugoslavia Srpska Bosnia and Herzegovina Herzeg-Bosnia Croatia: Victory
Yugoslav soldiers at a parade in Cairo. A group of high-ranking officers led by the Prime Minister and Army General Dušan Simović, the Minister of the Army and Navy Bogoljub Ilić and the Commander of the Air Force, Brigadier General Borivoje Mirković together with members of the government and King Peter II left the Kingdom of Yugoslavia on 15 April 1941 from Nikšić via Greece for ...