original name JOSIP BROZ, Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman. He was secretary-general (later president) of the Communist Party (League of Communists) of Yugoslavia (1939-80), supreme commander of the Yugoslav Partisans (1941-45) and the Yugoslav People's Army (1945-80), and marshal (1943-80), premier (1945-53), and president (1953-80) of Yugoslavia. Tito was the chief architect of the "second Yugoslavia," a socialist federation that lasted from World War II until 1991. faculty.virginia.edu
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Yugoslav communist politician, in effective control of Yugoslavia from 1943. In World War II he organized the National Liberation Army to carry on guerrilla warfare against the German invasion in 1941, and was created marshal in 1943. As prime minister encyclopedia.farlex.com/Josip+Broz+Tito
Josip Broz Tito was an enigmatic figure of personal and social character who captured the political and social respect on a global basis through his revolutionary contributions during his lifetime to the country of Yugoslavia and the world. He was born t novaonline.nv.cc.va.us/eli/evans/HIS135/Events/Tito80/Tit...
Originally named Josip Broz, he was born on May 7, 1892, in Kumrovec, Croatia (then part of Austria-Hungary), of a Slovene mother and a Croatian peasant father. ... Tito served as a noncommissioned officer in the Austrian army during War I. Wounded and www.history.com/encyclopedia.do?vendorId=FWNE.fw..ti061600.a
Marshal Tito, meanwhile, was born Josip Broz in 1892 to peasants in Austria-Hungary, and was the seventh child. He only had a few years of education and attended school from only age seven to twelve. At age eighteen, Josip joined the Croatian Social Dem www.hyperhistory.net/apwh/essays/comp/cw30husseinTito3320...
Born Josip Broz on May 7, 1892 in the Croatian village of Kumrovec, in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire (and now is in Slovenia), he was the seventh of fifteen children born to Roman Catholic peasants. His blacksmith father, Franjo Broz was a Cro www.imdb.com/name/nm0864482/