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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.
Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) – Angola (communist guerrillas who fought Portuguese rule and later established a Marxist regime) National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) – Angola (anti-communist guerrillas backed by the United States and Apartheid South Africa. Angolan Civil War)
The men's national basketball team of the United States competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, and won the gold medal.Nicknamed the "Dream Team", it was the first American Olympic team to include active professional players from the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Michael Tully of hammertonail.com sees the film as "being about many different things at once—a history lesson, a touching interpersonal drama, and a positive reaffirmation that the American Dream still exists and isn't a completely silly construct" and labels it "a very strong work, in which the grand scope of the Yugoslav Wars of the early ...
The new communist government in Yugoslavia started to focus on the Crusaders in July 1945. They feared the possibility that this group could bring the return of the "60,000 Ustaše who are waiting from Venice to Trieste". The Yugoslav government declared an amnesty in August and September 1945. Large number of Crusaders responded.
The Chetniks, [a] formally the Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army, and also the Yugoslav Army in the Homeland [b] and informally colloquially the Ravna Gora Movement, was a Yugoslav royalist and Serbian nationalist movement and guerrilla force [2] [3] [4] in Axis-occupied Yugoslavia.
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 ...
Yugoslav Americans are Americans of full or partial Yugoslav ancestry. In the 2021 Community Surveys, there were 210,395 people who indicated Yugoslav or Yugoslav American as their ethnic origin; [1] a steep and steady decrease from previous censuses (233,325 in 2019; [2] 276,360 in 2016 [3]) and nearly a 36% decrease from the 2000 Census when there were over 328,000.