Partisan–Chetnik War (1941–1945)

Partisan Chetnik War
	Part of the Second World War in Yugoslavia
	; Photo of the Trial of Draža Mihailović, the main General of the Chetnik movement
Date	2 November 1941 – 15 May 1945
Location	Yugoslavia;
Result	Yugoslav Partisan victory Establishment of Communist Yugoslavia; Trial of Draža Mihailović; Communist purges;
Belligerents
Yugoslav Partisans; Yugoslav government-in-exile (from September 1944); Soviet Union; Bulgarian Resistance; LANÇ; United Kingdom (from 1943); United States (from 1943)	Chetniks Slovene Chetniks; Pećanac Chetniks; Yugoslav government-in-exile (until September 1944) ; United Kingdom (until 1943) ; United States (until 1943) ; Germany (from 1943) Serbia (from 1941); Italy (from 1942)
Commanders and leaders
Josip Broz Tito (WIA) ; Aleksandar Ranković ; Vladimir Perić † ; Arso Jovanović ; Mladen Stojanović ; Vicko Krstulović ; Kosta Nađ ; Koča Popović ; Vlado Dapčević ; Milan Blagojević Španac ; Fyodor Tolbukhin ; Nikolai Gagen ; Vladimir Stoychev ; Enver Hoxha	Draža Mihailović ; Ilija Trifunović-Birčanin # ; Pavle Đurišić † ; Dobroslav Jevđević ; Zvonimir Vučković; Petar Baćović ; Stanko Vrhovac ; Vojislav Lukačević ; Vučko Ignjatović ; Miroslav Trifunović † ; Kosta Pećanac ; Lazar Tešanović ; Ljubo Novaković ; Bajo Stanišić † ; Karl Novak ; Alexander Löhr ; Karl von Oberkamp ; Lothar Rendulic ; Mario Roatta ; Lorenzo Vivalda
Strength
20,000 (1941) ; 100,000 (1943) ; 800,000 (1945)	Up to 5,000 (1941); 93,000 (1943) ; Unknown (1945)
Casualties and losses
Up to 20,000	20,000–30,000

The Partisan–Chetnik War was an armed conflict between the communist Yugoslav Partisans and the monarchist Chetniks which lasted from 1941 (after the end of the Chetnik Partisan Alliance during the Serbian Uprising in the Second World War) until 1945 (the end of the Second World War in Yugoslavia).