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World War II in Yugoslavia; Part of the European theatre of World War II: Clockwise from top left: Ante Pavelić visits Adolf Hitler at the Berghof; Stjepan Filipović hanged by the occupation forces; Draža Mihailović confers with his troops; a group of Chetniks with German soldiers in a village in Serbia; Josip Broz Tito with members of the British mission
Mission Rogers was a World War II Special Operations Executive (SOE) medical and military expedition to Yugoslav Partisans in Dalmatia, western Bosnia and Slovenia. 28/11/1943 Monkeywrench Mission Airborne Eastern Serbia Maj Dugmore SOE mission to Yugoslav partisans, sent to prepare the area for the British break with Mihailović. [38] Dec 1943
End of World War II in Europe (concurrently with the Western Front) Soviet Union occupies Eastern Europe and establishes pro-Soviet Communist regimes in various countries (including Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and East Germany) Establishment of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia (/ ˌ j uː ɡ oʊ ˈ s l ɑː v i ə /; lit. ' Land of the South Slavs ') [a] was a country in Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 to 1992. It came into existence following World War I, [b] under the name of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes from the merger of the Kingdom of Serbia with the provisional State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, and constituted the ...
The main reason was that none of the subordinate national groups, including Slovenes and Croats, were prepared to fight in defence of a Serbian Yugoslavia. Also, so that the Slovenes did not feel abandoned, defences were built on Yugoslavia's northern border when the natural line of defence was much further south, based on the rivers Sava and ...
The first democratic elections in 45 years are held in Yugoslavia in an attempt to bring the Yugoslav socialist model into the new, post–Cold War world. Nationalist options win majorities in almost all republics. The Croatian winning party, HDZ offers a vice-presidential position to the Serb Radical Party, which refuses.
Air warfare during World War II in Yugoslavia pitted the Yugoslav Air Force, both Royal and NOVJ, United States Army Air Force (USAAF), the Royal Air Force (RAF), including the Balkan Air Force, and Soviet Air Forces against the German Luftwaffe, the Italian Regia Aeronautica and the Air Force of the Independent State of Croatia (Zrakoplovstvo Nezavisne Države Hrvatske, ZNDH).
Works about Yugoslavia in World War II (3 C, 5 P) Pages in category "Yugoslavia in World War II" The following 152 pages are in this category, out of 152 total.