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Independent State of Croatia

historical nation, Europe [1941–1945]
Also known as: NDH
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The Independent State of Croatia was a World War II-era puppet state established in 1941 by the Axis powers. It was created from parts of occupied Yugoslavia and included Bosnia and Herzegovina and parts of Dalmatia. The ruling Ustaša regime, led by Ante Pavelić, was responsible for horrific persecution and massacres of Serbs, Jews, Roma, and anti-fascist Croats, with estimates of 350,000 to 450,000 victims. Resistance to the Ustaša regime was primarily led by the communist Partisans under Josip Broz Tito. By the end of the war in 1945, the state ceased to exist and Croatia became a republic within the new federal Yugoslavia.12

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  1. Croatia - Croatia in Yugoslavia , 1945–91
  2. Croatia - World War II
  3. Croatia - Croatian national revival
  4. Croatia - From World War I to the establishment of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes

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