National Liberation War (Yugoslavia)

World War II in Yugoslavia

Part of World War II

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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

Date

6 April 1941 – 15 May 1945
(4 years, 1 month, 1 week and 2 days)

Location

Result

Allied victory

Defeat of Nazi Germany in the Balkans
Defeat and overthrow of Independent State of Croatia, Government of National Salvation, Chetniks, and other Axis collaborators
Communist Partisans abolish of monarchy and establish a communist government
Establishment of Democratic Federal Yugoslavia

Belligerents

April 1941:

April 1941:

1941–43:

NDH

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Pećanac Chetniks

1941–43:

Chetniks
Supported by:

1941–43:

Partisans
Supported by:

1943–45:
Germany
NDH
VNS (until 1944)
Chetniks
CG (until 1944)
Hungary
Bulgaria (until 1944)
Albania (until 1944)

Slovene Home Guard

1943–45:

Soviet Union
(1944–45)

Bulgaria
(1944–45)

Albania (1944–45)

United States (limited involvement)

Commanders and leaders

Maximilian von Weichs
Alexander Löhr (POW)
Edmund Glaise von Horstenau
Mario Roatta
Miklós Horthy
Ante Pavelić
Slavko Kvaternik
Milan Nedić
Sekula Drljević
Kosta Pećanac †
Leon Rupnik
Bogdan Filov

Dušan Simović
Danilo Kalafatović

Draža Mihailović
Ilija Trifunović-Birčanin
Dobroslav Jevđević
Pavle Đurišić
Momčilo Đujić
Zaharije Ostojić
Petar Baćović
Vojislav Lukačević

Jezdimir Dangić

Josip Broz Tito
Mihajlo Apostolski
Milovan Đilas
Aleksandar Ranković
Kosta Nađ
Peko Dapčević
Koča Popović
Petar Drapšin
Svetozar Vukmanović Tempo
Arso Jovanović
Sava Kovačević †
Ivan Gošnjak
Boris Kidrič
Franc Rozman Stane †
Fyodor Tolbukhin

Vladimir Stoychev

Strength

300,000 (1944)
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