The Independent State of Croatia was a puppet state created by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy after the invasion and partition of Yugoslavia. It was ruled by the Ustase movement under Ante Pavelic and included most of present-day Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The regime carried out a campaign of persecution and mass murder against Serbs, Jews and Roma, and against political opponents, and it ran concentration camps, of which Jasenovac was the most notorious. Its authority was limited by German and Italian occupation zones, and it faced a strong resistance movement, the Partisans. As the Axis collapsed in 1945, the state disintegrated, and many of its officials and troops fled toward Austria.
Before and after
- 28 March 1941Death of Virginia Woolf
- from 6 April 1941 to 30 April 1941Battle of Greece
- from 6 April 1941 to 15 May 1945World War II in Yugoslavia
- from 6 April 1941 to 18 April 1941Invasion of Yugoslavia
- from 10 April 1941 to 8 May 1945Independent State of Croatia
- from 2 May 1941 to 31 May 1941Anglo-Iraqi War
- 24 May 1941Birth of Bob Dylan
- 4 June 1941Death of Wilhelm II
- from 22 June 1941 to 1 March 1945Rise of Yugoslav Partisans
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