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Problematic Situation - Croatia, First World War (1914-1918) (Russian…

- - - - 1929 - Murder of Toni Schlegel, editor of a pro-Yugoslavian newspaper, for posting a note against the regime, creating terror among the population
    - - 1929- Leader of the Croatia Peasant Party was assassinated so the dictatorship of King Alexander could carry on
        
        The Serbian country in Belgrade favors more centralized control rather than Croatia which wanted more liberal control, this caused Croatia to been seen as a threat to Yugoslav Nationalist
        
        1939 - The Croatian Peasant Party negotiates a partial restoration of Croatian autonomy with the Cvetković–Maček Agreement
        
        1934 - King Alexander is assassinated by a coalition of the Ustase, the Bulgarian Vmoro
      - Rise of Fascism, Totalitarianism, and Dictatorship
      - Fascism first appeared in Italy with the rise to power of Benito Mussolini in 1922
      - Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany in 1933, a new variant of fascism called Nazism
      - WWII (1939–1945)
        
        1941 - Nazi Germany invades. A "Greater Croatia" is formed, also comprising most of Bosnia and western Serbia. A fascist puppet government is installed under Ante Pavelic.
        
        Creation of the Ustaša
        
        Influenced by the Italian Fascism. It was characterized by the continued use of terrorist violence to achieve its ultimate goal: the independence of Croatia and the formation of a Croatian State.
        
        Croatia becomes one of the six constituent republics of the Yugoslav socialist federation.
        
        1945 - With the help of the russian army, the Partisan resistance expelled the Axis forces.
        
        End of Empires (1946)
        
        Cold War Beginning (1947-1960)
        
        Mid-Cold War (1960-1979)
        
        Cold War Ending (1979-1991)
        
        Post Cold War (1991-2000)
        
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        1980- Dead of Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslavia's President was the only glue between Croatia and the rest of Yugoslavia, so after his dead the rivalries began to emerge again
        
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        1967 - Croatian writers demand greater linguistic autonomy, prompting a movement for political, economic and cultural liberalisation.
        
        1971 Protestors demand greater autonomy in a movement known as the "Croatian Spring".
        
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        In Croatia Cardinal Alojzije Stepinac (d.1960) was imprisoned by the Communists
        
        Yugoslavia set up the Goli Otok (Barren Island) prison camp off the coast of Croatia for political prisoners
        
        Slovenia, which during the war was occupied by Italy and Germany, became a killing field,
        
        Germans, Italians, Hungarians, Croatians, and Serbs, tried to escape to Austria.