= Croatian Democratization = A history of '''Croatian democratization'''. <> ---- == Kingdom of Yugoslavia == During the [[WorldHistory/WorldWar1|World War 1]] peace negotiations, nationalists declared a '''State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs'''. The [[WorldHistory/TreatyOfTrianon|Treaty of Trianon]] wrapped them into the [[Serbia/Monarchs#Principality_and_Kingdom_of_Serbia|Kingdom of Serbia]] to form a new '''Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes'''. The official name became '''Kingdom of Yugoslavia''' in 1929. The territory was divided into two separate provinces (''pokrajine''): '''Croatia and Slavonia'''; and '''Dalmatia'''. A centralized government was established in 1921 and the kingdom was re-divided into oblasts. To promote Yugoslav identities, these oblasts purposefully had no parallel to older, ethnic divisions. The kingdom was again reorganized in 1929 into banates (''banovina''). Again, older, ethnic divisions were avoided. The two that most resembled Croatian territory were the '''Littoral''' (''Primorska'') and '''Sava''' (''Savska'') banates. In 1939, they were merged into a '''banate of Croatia''' (''Бановина Хрватска'' or ''Banovina Hrvatska''). This reflected the stubborn persistance of an independent Croatian identity. On March 27th, 1941, King '''Peter II''' overthrew the [[WorldHistory/Axis|Axis-aligned]] regency of [[WorldHistory/Yugoslavia/Paul|Paul]]. [[Germany/AdolfHitler|Germany]] [[WorldHistory/WorldWar2#Yugoslavia|invaded]] in retaliation. ---- == Independent State of Croatia == The '''Independent State of Croatia''' was a [[Germany/AdolfHitler|German]] client state. A fascist government was formed under [[Croatia/AntePavelic|Pavelić]] and the [[Croatia/Ustase|Ustaše]]. ---- == Yugoslavia == [[WorldHistory/Yugoslavia/JosipBrozTito|Tito]] led the [[WorldHistory/Yugoslavia|Yugoslav Partisans]] to liberate the former kingdom, and following [[WorldHistory/WorldWar2|World War 2]] established the '''Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia'''. Croatia was administered as a federal republic within Yugoslavia. After Tito died, the chair of the presidency council began to rotate among members. ---- == Republic of Croatia == When [[Croatia/StjepanMesic|Mesić]] became chair of the presidency council, he ceased to attend meetings. The members from [[Slovenia/Democratization#Republic_of_Slovenia|Slovenia]] and [[NorthMacedonia/Democratization#Republic_of_North_Macedonia|Macedonia]] similarly abandoned government, leaving just [[Serbia/SlobodanMilosevic|Milošević]] and his supporters. This effectively ended the executive power of Yugoslavia. Through a period of violence known as thge [[WorldHistory/YugoslavWars|Yugoslav Wars]], Croatia gained recognition of its independence. Croatia was admitted to the [[WorldHistory/UnitedNations|UN]] and a Yugoslav state was never re-established over Croatia. Croatia proceeded to join the [[WorldHistory/EuropeanUnion|EU]] in 2003; [[WorldHistory/NorthAtlanticTreatyOrganization|NATO]] in 2009; and the Eurozone in 2023. ---- CategoryRicottone