SAVEZNICI I JUGOSLAVIJA U DRUGOM SVETSKOM RATU
THE ALLIES AND YUGOSLAVIA DURING WORLD WAR II

Summary/Abstract: The article »The Allies in Yugoslavia during World War II« describes the attitude of the great powers of the anti-Fascist coalition, the Soviet Union, Great Britain and the United States of America, towards the problems Yugoslavia faced from the April war in 1941 until the formation of a common government of the Democratic Federal Yugoslavia on 7 March, 1945. The allies had already made a decision in 1941 to aid the revival of Yugoslavia without influencing the formation if its internal system and, during the war, they supported those political and military forces in the country which they thought capable of achieving this aim. It is no coincidence that the allies gave their most substantial aid to the national liberation movement, accepting it as the only force able to recreate Yugoslavia as a state. The article offers facts about military and other aid provided for the national liberation movement by Great Britain, USA and the Soviet Union, with the observation that this aid contributed to a quicker liberation of Yugoslavia with reduced losses, and to the influence which the great powers, primarily Great Britain, followed by the Soviet Union, had in resolving essential issues regarding the formation of the new Yugoslavia.

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