 Complete the following phrase:  The Croatian Partisans, officially the National Liberation Movement in Croatia ; NOP, were part of the Communist-led Yugoslav Partisans, a guerrila force in the Axis-occupied Yugoslavia that fought against the Axis-powers forces and Serbian royalists from July 1941 until May 1945 during World War II, across the territory of the Axis-allied Independent State of Croatia NDH. Croatian Partisan units succeeded in temporarily or permanently liberating considerable parts of Croatia from Axis forces. The defeat of the NDH in mid-May 1945 was followed by 