List of wars involving Yugoslavia

This is a list of wars involving the Former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1918–1943)

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
Christmas Uprising
(1919)
Kingdom of Yugoslavia Montenegrin Whites
Kingdom of Yugoslavia Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Kingdom of Montenegro Montenegrin Greens
 Kingdom of Italy
Victory
  • The uprising was put down.
Invasion of Yugoslavia
(1941)
Part of the World War II
Kingdom of Yugoslavia Kingdom of Yugoslavia  Germany
 Italy
Hungary Hungary
Defeat

Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1943–1992)

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
Eastern Front (World War II)
(1941-1945)
Part of the World War II
Allies
 Soviet Union
Poland Poland
Democratic Federal Yugoslavia Yugoslavia (from 1944)
Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia (from 1943)
Tuvan People's Republic Tuva (until 1944)[1]

Former Axis powers or co-belligerents
 Romania (from 1944)
Bulgaria (from 1944)
 Finland (from 1944)


Aerial role only
Free France Free France (1943–45)
United Kingdom United Kingdom (1941)
United States United States (1944)

Axis powers
 Nazi Germany[2]
 Romania (until 1944)
 Hungary
 Italy (until 1943)
 Bulgaria (until 1944)

Axis puppet states
 Slovakia
 Croatia


Co-belligerents
 Finland (until 1944)

Victory
  • End of World War II in Europe (concurrently with the Western Front).
  • Soviet Union occupies Eastern Europe and establishes pro-Soviet Communist governments in countries including Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and East Germany.
  • Establishment of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia.
  • Beginning of the Cold War and the creation of the Iron Curtain.
  • The beginning of the Greek Civil War.
  • Borders of Poland adjusted.
Angolan Civil War
(1975-2002)
Angola MPLA
SWAPO
MK
 Cuba (1975-91)
 East Germany (1975-89)
 Soviet Union (1975-89)
Executive Outcomes (1992-95)
 Yugoslavia
UNITA
FNLA
FLEC
 South Africa (1975-89)
 Zaire (1975)
Victory
  • Withdrawal of all foreign forces in 1989
  • Transition towards a multiparty political system in 1991/92
  • Dissolution of the armed forces of FNLA
  • Participation of UNITA and FNLA, as political parties, in the new political system, from 1991/92 onwards, but civil war continues
  • Jonas Savimbi killed in 2002
  • Immediate peace agreement and dissolution of the armed forces of UNITA in 2002
  • Resistance of FLEC continued beyond 2002
Ten-Day War
(1991)
 Yugoslavia Slovenia Slovenian Republic Defeat
Croatian War of Independence
(1991-1995)
Republic of Serbian Krajina
 Republika Srpska

Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Yugoslav People's Army

Croatia Croatia
Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina
Defeat

References

  1. Toomas Alatalu. Tuva: A State Reawakens. Soviet Studies, Vol. 44, No. 5 (1992), pp. 881–895.
  2. Germany's allies, in total, provided a significant number of troops and material to the front. There were also numerous foreign units recruited by Germany, notably the Francoist Spain Spanish Blue Division and the Vichy France Legion of French Volunteers Against Bolshevism.
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