On April 6, Yugoslavia was invaded and its territory was split among several countries. Stopno, like all of Styria, was annexed by Germany and remained under it until the end of the war. In 1945, a local people's committee ("KLO") was formed in Stopno, and in 1952 it was united with the municipal people's committee of Makole. Stopno was part of the Ptuj district in the communist Yugoslavia and, after the abolition of that district in 1965, it was part of the Maribor district until independence in 1991.