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Conflict Europe

Yugoslav People's Liberation War

1941 CE – 1945 CE · 4 years

Complex multi-sided conflict featuring the largest resistance movement in occupied Europe. Tito's communist Partisans grew to 800,000 fighters and liberated Yugoslavia largely without direct Allied ground support, while fighting Axis occupiers, fascist collaborators, and royalist Chetniks simultaneously.

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World War II in Yugoslavia on Wikipedia.

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Belligerents

The main peoples, kingdoms and states involved.

  • Yugoslav Partisans (Tito)
  • Nazi Germany, Italy, Ustaše Croatia, Chetniks

Key moments

Defining events in the Yugoslav People's Liberation War.

  1. 1943 Battle of Sutjeska
  2. 1943 Battle of Neretva
  3. 1942 Battle of Kozara

Elsewhere in Europe at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

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Landmark · Europe

Plitvice Lakes

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Europe

Germany (Soviet)

Founded 1945 CE · attested to 1945 CE

Conflict · Europe

Continuation War

1941 CE – 1944 CE

Landmark · Europe

Giant's Causeway

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Europe

Saar Protectorate

1945 CE – 1956 CE

Conflict · Europe

Lapland War

1944 CE – 1945 CE

Landmark · Europe

Danube Delta

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Europe

Germany (UK)

Founded 1945 CE · attested to 1945 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1941 CE and 1945 CE.

1941 CE Continuation War 1941 CE Siege of Leningrad 1942 CE Battle of Stalingrad 1943 CE Battle of Kursk 1944 CE Lapland War

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Parícutin Volcano Landmark · Americas 1943 CE – still standing China Polity · East Asia Founded 1945 CE · attested to 2026 CE Tea Horse Road Trade route · East Asia 700 CE – 1950 CE Nikola Tesla Figure · Serbia / United States 1856 CE – 1943 CE Anglo-Iraqi War Conflict · Middle East 1941 CE Grand Canyon Landmark · Americas 3000 BCE – still standing
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