After the Partisans managed to endure and avoid these intense Axis attacks between January and June 1943, and the extent of Chetnik collaboration became evident, Allied leaders switched their support from Draža Mihailović to Tito.

The Yugoslav Partisans established a multi-ethnic army that managed to seize control of Yugoslavia and create the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

* In the Mark Brandis Space Partisans universe, mankind in the late 21st century has managed to terraform Venus to host a colony of cities, each covered by massive transparent domes containing a breathable atmosphere and protecting from the heat.

The Axis Case White and Case Black offensives of the first six months of 1943 caused significant setbacks for the Partisans ; however, in September Tito took advantage of the capitulation of Italy and managed to increase the territory under his control and double his forces in size to around 200, 000 men, arming them with captured Italian weapons.

After a few attempts, he managed to con his way into the Partisans and took part in active combat.

Although KPH had many of its leading figures arrested and killed by new regime, it remained strong enough to form what would become the only truly effective resistance movement in Croatia — the Partisans.

In Yugoslavia, the communist Yugoslav Partisans led by Josip Broz Tito, held up an effective guerrilla resistance movement to the Axis occupiers.

Western attempts to reunite the Partisans, who denied the supremacy of the old government of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and the émigrés loyal to the king led to the Tito-Šubašić Agreement in June 1944 ; however, Marshal Josip Broz Tito was seen as a national hero by the citizens and was elected by referendum to lead the new independent communist state, starting as a prime minister.

The following year a pacifist event was organized, the " 1st Worldwide Congress of Peace Partisans " ( 1er Congrès Mondial des Partisans de la Paix, the World Peace Council's predecessor ) which took place from March 25 to March 28, 1948 in Paris, with the French communist Nobel laureate atomic physicist Frédéric Joliot-Curie as president.

Qasim in an attempt to intimidate any potential coup had encouraged a communist backed Peace Partisans rally in Mosul on March 6, 1959.

Partizan was founded on 4 October 1945, as a football section of the Yugoslav Sports Association Partizan, and was named in honour of the Yugoslav Partisans, the communist military formation who fought during the World War II.

But the vast majority of HSS supporters remained passive and neutral for the duration of the war as the Ustasha, the communist Partisans and the royalist Chetniks fought for control.

The Royal Government soon capitulated, and the resistance was mainly made by the Četniks, who defended the restoration of the Monarchy, and the Partisans, who supported the creation of a communist Yugoslav state.

During this period, Croats coalesced around the ruling authorities or the communist anti-fascist Partisans.

At the end of the war, the communist dominated Partisans prevailed and the region was part of the People's Republic of Croatia until 7 April 1963, when the federal republic changed its name to the Socialist Republic of Croatia.

After the Tehran Conference, the Allies shifted support from royalist Chetniks to communist Partisans.

With the birth of the communist Partisans in 1941 in time for the Second World War, their flags showed the same Pan-Slavic colours on them ( arranged according to nationality ) but this time a red star was added in the middle.

The Partisans ' primary goal was to create a communist state in Yugoslavia.

He became one of the leaders of communist resistance in Paris and organized a group that became Francs-Tireurs et Partisans ( FTP ).

After the fall of Independent State of Croatia, Stanzer was captured, tried and sentenced to death by the communist Partisans.

The other was the revolutionary Partisans led by the communist Josip Broz-known to the world later as Tito.

* 1945 – World War II: Sarajevo is liberated from German and Croatian forces by the Yugoslav Partisans.

As the movement began to gain popularity, the Partisans gained strength from Croats, Bosniaks, Serbs, Slovenes, and Macedonians who believed in a unified, but federal, Yugoslav state.

Sixteen young, blindfolded Yugoslav Partisans await execution by German forces in Serbia, 20 August 1941

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in the Sri Lankan Civil War, the Afghan Mujahideen in the Soviet war in Afghanistan, George Grivas and Nikos Sampson's Greek guerrilla group EOKA in Cyprus, Aris Velouchiotis and Stefanos Sarafis and the EAM against the Axis occupation of Greece during World War II, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and the German Schutztruppe in World War I, Josip Broz Tito and the Yugoslav Partisans in World War II, and the antifrancoist guerrilla in Spain during the Franco dictatorship, the Kosovo Liberation Army in the Kosovo War, and the Irish Republican Army led by Michael Collins during the Irish War of Independence.

He was General Secretary ( later Chairman of the Presidium ) of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia ( 1939 – 80 ), and went on to lead the World War II Yugoslav guerrilla movement, the Partisans ( 1941 – 45 ).

With their strategic right flank secured by the Allied advance, the Partisans prepared and executed a massive general offensive which succeeded in breaking through German lines and forcing a retreat beyond Yugoslav borders.

Yugoslav Partisans | Yugoslav Partisan troops on the march in Slavonia, 1943

* 1942 – World War II: Yugoslav Partisans convene the first meeting of the Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia at Bihać in northwestern Bosnia.

* 1944 – The Soviet Army and Yugoslav Partisans liberate Belgrade, the capital of Yugoslavia

Yugoslav Partisans | Partisan Stjepan Filipović shouting " Death to fascism, freedom to the people!

From the start, the Yugoslav resistance forces consisted of two factions: the communist-led Yugoslav Partisans and the royalist Chetniks, with the former receiving Allied recognition only at the Tehran conference ( 1943 ).

The Yugoslav Partisans were able to expel the Axis from Serbia in 1944 and the rest of Yugoslavia in 1945.

In May 1945, the Partisans met with Allied forces outside former Yugoslav borders, after also taking over Trieste and parts of the southern Austrian provinces of Styria and Carinthia.

* April 6 – WWII: Sarajevo is liberated from the Nazi Germany and Nazi Croatia ( German puppet state ) by the Yugoslav Partisans.

* National Liberation Army ( Yugoslavia ), another name of the Yugoslav WWII resistance movement, the Partisans

On May 25, 1944, paratroopers were dropped as part of a failed attempt to capture Josip Broz Tito, the head of the Yugoslav Partisans and later postwar leader of Yugoslavia.

A cabinet for the new Democratic Federal Yugoslavia was formed, with twenty five of the twenty eight members being former Communist Yugoslav Partisans led by Josip Broz Tito.

Yugoslav Partisans led by Josip Broz Tito took full control of Slavonia in April 1945.

The municipality has an official memorial-area Crni Potok, dedicated to soldiers and civilians killed at the site by members of the Yugoslav Partisans.

During the war, the German Mitropa company had run some services on the route through the Balkans, but Yugoslav Partisans frequently sabotaged the track, forcing a stop to this service.