The Kingdom of Yugoslavia emerged from the First World
War in 1919, when the Serbs exploited their political weight, as a
member of the victorious Entente, to unite South Slavs under the rule
of the dynasty of the Karadjordjevićes. That state of the matters
remained unchanged throughout the inter-war period; a particularly
acute problem at that time posed so-called Croatian question. During
the 1930's quickly grew economical dependency on foreign factors;
Balkan food products and tobacco at that time found a very attractive
market in Germany. Politically, however, the strongest ties were those
with France. How dangerous in its consequences was the economical
dependency on the German Reich, transpires from the assessment of the
situation by prime-minister Dragiša Cvetković: Economically, Yugoslavia was
completely dependent on Germany, and remained a
self-governing state only by name.
In the summer of 1940, after the military collapse of France, the
pro-German orientation prevailed. More >>>
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