page_title: Serbia–United States relations
section_title: Relations between the Kingdom of Serbia and the United States
hierarchical_section_title: Serbia–United States relations / History / Relations between the Kingdom of Serbia and the United States
caption_attribution_description: English: The first meeting of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA.) in the Office of The Secretary Of War April 23, 1915. Brig. Gen. George P. Scriven was elected as the temporary Chairman of the NACA and Dr. Charles D. Walcott (not pictured), Secretary of the Smithsonian, was elected Chairman of the NACA Executive Committee. After the Wright Brothers historic first flight in 1903, the United States began to fall behind in aeronautical research. With the beginning of World War I the nation realized it needed a center for aeronautical research as a means of catching up technologically with Europe. On March 3, 1915 the legislation creating the NACA passed and the NACA was born. For 43 years the NACA worked to advance aviation research until it was eventually absorbed into the new space agency, NASA, in 1958. Seated from Left to Right:Dr. William Durand, Stanford University, California.Dr. S.W. Stratton, Director, Bureau of Standards.Brig.Gen. George P. Scriven, Chief Signal Officer, War Dept.Dr. C.F. Marvin, Chief, United States Weather Bureau Dr. Michael I Pupin, Columbia University, New York. Standing:Holden C. Richardson, Naval Instructor.Dr. John F. Hayford, Northwestern University, Illinois.Capt. Mark L. Bristol, Director of Naval Aeronautics.Lt. Col. Samuel Reber, Signal Corps. Charge, Aviation Section Also present at the First Meeting:Dr. Joseph S. Ames, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.Hon. B. R. Newton, Asst. Secretary of Treasury.
context_page_description: Serbia–United States relations are bilateral relations between the Republic of Serbia and the United States of America. They were first established in 1882 with the Kingdom of Serbia. From 1918 to 2006, the United States maintained relations with the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, of which Serbia is considered the legal successor.
  At the end of the 19th century, the United States sought to take advantage of the Ottoman Empire's retreat from the Balkans by establishing diplomatic relations with the region's newly emerged nation states, among which was Serbia. The two countries were allies during World War I. After the war, Serbia united with Montenegro and territories previously held by Austria-Hungary to a create a unified South Slavic state that would come to be known as Yugoslavia. The country had diplomatic relations with the United States up to the start of World War II. During World War II in Yugoslavia, the United States supported the Serbian royalist Chetniks over their rivals, the communist Partisans.
context_section_description: Diplomatic relations between the then-Kingdom of Serbia and the United States were established in the 19th century. In 1879, the Serbian Consulate-General in New York was opened. On February 3, 1882, the Serbian Parliament adopted a contract and Convention of diplomatic relations between the Kingdom of Serbia and the United States, given by King Milan Obrenović. The United States Senate adopted both documents on July 5, 1882 without debate or amendments. On November 10, 1882, Eugene Schuyler became the first United States ambassador in Serbia.
caption: Mihajlo Pupin (seated first from right), honorary consul of Serbia in the United States, at the first meeting of the NACA (1915)
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