(AP Photo) An escape denied Yugoslavia had a plan to fight an Axis invasion. Part of that plan included a strategy of retreat in case of impending defeat. Strategists decided that if Yugoslavian ...

If Yugoslavia refused to join Adolf Hitler’s Axis, those provinces would be quickly lost, perhaps never to be regained. Hitler in a Hurry. Spring was about to burst upon Europe. Peace must be ...

Yugoslavia was first formed as a kingdom in 1918 and then recreated as a Socialist state in 1945 after the Axis powers were defeated in World ... Yugoslavia has disappeared from the map of Europe, ...

The first Axis Powers were Germany, Italy, and Japan. Yugoslavia, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Croatia, and Bulgaria joined later. In 1936, Germany and Japan had already formed the so-called Anti ...

The former Yugoslavia was a Socialist state created after German occupation in World War II and a bitter civil war. A federation of six republics, it brought together Serbs, Croats, Bosnian ...