Clockwise from top left:
Ante Pavelić visits Adolf Hitler at the Berghof; Stjepan Filipović hanged by the occupation forces; A group of Chetniks with German soldiers in a village in Serbia; Josip Broz Tito with members of the British mission; Draža Mihailović confers with his troops (en)
Yugoslav Partisan–Allied victory
* Defeat of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy in the Balkans
* Defeat and overthrow of the Independent State of Croatia, Government of National Salvation, Chetniks, and other Axis collaborators
* Communist-led Partisans officially abolish the Yugoslav monarchy
* Establishment of Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia under the rule of Josip Broz Tito
* Post-war mass killings in reprisal and repression by Yugoslav Partisans (en)