- Josip Broz Tito - Wikipedia
Drafted into military service, he distinguished himself, becoming the youngest sergeant major in the Austro-Hungarian Army of that time After being seriously wounded and captured by the Russians during World War I, he was sent to a work camp in the Ural Mountains
- Josip Broz Tito | Biography Facts | Britannica
Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman, the premier or president of Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1980 He was the first Communist leader in power to defy Soviet hegemony, a backer of independent roads to socialism, and a promoter of the policy of nonalignment between the two hostile blocs in the Cold War
- Tito: prisoner, partisan, president – Historia Magazine
Who was President Tito? A communist dictator who, against all odds, held the former Yugoslavia together, a partisan leader during the Second World War, a charismatic, but vain, man, says Hilary Green
- Josip Broz Tito | OSU eHistory
From 1945 onwards Marshal Tito ruled Yugoslavia as premier and minister of defense as a dictatorship, suppressing internal opposition, executing Mihajlovi, and jailing Archbishop Stepinac of Zagreb Tito nationalized the Yugoslav industry and undertook a planned economy
- Josip Broz Tito - New World Encyclopedia
Tito is best known for organizing anti-fascist resistance movement Yugoslav Partisans, defying Soviet influence (Titoism), and founding and promoting Non-Aligned Movement worldwide
- Tito (Josip Broz) (1892–1980) - Encyclopedia. com
Communist leader of Yugoslavia Josip Broz—"Tito" was his wartime party code name—was born in the village of Kumrovec on the Croatia-Slovenia border, in Austria-Hungary His mother was Slovene, but he always spoke the language of his Croat father in public
- Tito - Oxford Reference
Born in Croatia, he served in the Austro‐Hungarian army during World War I and was captured by the Russians in 1915 After escaping, he fought with the Bolsheviks in the Russian Revolution and became an active Communist organizer on returning to his country in 1920
- Tito - Yad Vashem
Tito (Josip Broz; 1892--1980), Yugoslav leader and statesman Born in Croatia, Tito joined the Soviet army in 1917 after being captured during World War I He returned to Yugoslavia in 1920 and was imprisoned from 1928 to 1934 for Communist activities
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