Background:
In
1918, the Croats, Serbs, and Slovenes formed a kingdom known after
1929 as
Yugoslavia. Following
World War II,
Yugoslavia became an independent
communist state under the strong hand of Marshal Tito
?. Although Croatia declared its independence from Yugoslavia in
1991, it took four years of sporadic, but often bitter, fighting before occupying Serb armies were mostly cleared from Croatian lands. Under
UN supervision the last Serb-held enclave in eastern Slavonia was returned to Croatia in
1998.
From the CIA World Factbook 2000 and the U.S. Department of State website.
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