Yugoslavia was a country in the Southeastern Europe with a three separate incarnations: Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes; Kingdom of Yugoslavia; and, after the WW2, a federal republic. The country flourished during the governance of the supreme leader Tito. It fell apart in a civil war in the ...
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Was the Bosnian Crisis the trigger to WWI and not the assassination?
I've read that Austria-Hungary annexed Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1908, much to the dismay of the Serbs. Russia backed this action and was promised to have access to the Straits but were later denied. The ...
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Were some Yugoslav “nationalities” more pro-Axis/Allied than others during World War II
"Yugo" (South) slavia, is actually a motley collection (mixed bag in the American idiom) of groups such as the Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Dalmations, Macedonians, Bosnians, and others.
During World War ...
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Tito's partisans loyalty
Why was Tito able to rally the loyalty of so much of the young people in ex-Yugoslavia, and the royalist Draza Michailovich (Драгољуб "Дража" Михаиловић) was not? The so-called chetnicks, loyal to the ...
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What was the reason for Soviet troops to withdraw from Yugoslavia in World War II?
For all these countries that the Red Army entered (Poland, Romania, part of Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary), the procedure was straightforward. Once the Soviets beat the Germans they become de facto ...
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What caused Yugoslavia to switch sides early in World War II?
In 1940,-41 Germany was able to enlist the support of Roumania, Hungary (the latter at the expense of the former), and Bulgaria, in the Balkans. Yugoslavia initially signed on with Germany, then soon ...
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UK involvement in Yugoslavia during WW2
What was the role and the level of involvement of the United Kingdom in Yugoslavia during the World War II ?
