Josip Broz Tito - Wikipedia Josip Broz (Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: Јосип Броз, pronounced [jǒsip brôːz] ⓘ; 7 May 1892 – 4 May 1980), commonly known as Tito ( ˈ t iː t oʊ TEE-toh; [2] Тито, pronounced), was a Yugoslav communist revolutionary and politician who served in various positions of national leadership from 1943 until his death in 1980 [3]
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
Josip Broz Tito - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Josip Broz, nicknamed Tito, (May 7, 1892 – May 4, 1980) was a Yugoslav communist revolutionary, World War II Hero, statesman and dictator who was the leader of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, from 1945 until his death in 1980
Tito, Josip Broz - Encyclopedia. com President of Yugoslavia and revolutionary J osip Broz Tito established a communist government in the country then known as Yugoslavia Fiercely independent, Tito managed to successfully distance himself and his country from Soviet leader Joseph Stalin (1879–1953; see entry) and Soviet control
Josip Broz Tito: The Man Who Was Too Tough for Stalin Josip Broz Tito is the man who said “no” to Stalin He was the only foreign president ever to light a cigar in the Oval Office This man welcomed the most prominent political and public figures of the 20th century, including the British royal family, Elisabeth Taylor, Sophia Loren, and many more in his summer residence
Josip Broz Tito Biography - Facts, Childhood, Family Life . . . Josip Broz Tito was a popular statesman who led the Yugoslav Partisans, Europe’s most effective anti-Nazi resistance movement during World War II Despite being an authoritarian and dictator, he was widely admired for his successful economic and diplomatic policies
Josip Broz Tito summary | Britannica Josip Broz Tito, orig Josip Broz, (born May 7, 1892, Kumrovec, near Zagreb, Croatia, Austria-Hungary—died May 4, 1980, Ljubljana, Yugos ), Yugoslav politician, premier (1945–53), and president (1953–80) Born to a peasant family, he fought in the Austro-Hungarian army in World War I and was captured by the Russians in 1915
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
Titoism - Wikipedia Tito initially approved the Soviet military intervention in his letter to Khrushchev due to fears of Hungarian Revolution provoking a similar anti-communist and nationalist movement in Yugoslavia Still, Tito later sheltered Nagy to prove Yugoslavia's sovereign status and non-aligned foreign policy to gain sympathy from the international community
Josip Broz Tito - Partisan Leader, Yugoslavia, Communism . . . Josip Broz Tito - Partisan Leader, Yugoslavia, Communism: An opportunity for armed insurgency presented itself after the Axis powers, led by Germany and Italy, occupied and partitioned Yugoslavia in April 1941