Resistance in 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 |
Yugoslavia |
Result |
Allied victory
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Belligerents |
April 1941: Germany Italy Hungary
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April 1941: Yugoslavia
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1941–43: Germany Italy NDH VNS CG Hungary Bulgaria Albania Pećanac Chetniks
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1941–43: Chetniks Supported by: United Kingdom United States
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1941–43: Partisans Supported by: Soviet Union
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1943–45: Germany NDH VNS (until 1944) Chetniks CG (until 1944) Hungary Bulgaria (until 1944) Albania (until 1944)
Slovene Home Guard
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1943–45: Partisans United Kingdom 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
Xhemo Hasa †
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Dušan Simović Danilo Kalafatović
Draža Mihailović Ilija Trifunović-Birčanin Dobroslav Jevđević Pavle Đurišić Momčilo Đujić Zaharije Ostojić Petar Baćović Vojislav Lukačević
Jezdimir Dangić
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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
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Strength |
300,000 (1944) 321,000 (1943) 170,000 (1943)
130,000 (1945) Wikipedia
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