He reported that: "The history of interwar Yugoslavia not a harmonious one." This was following. of course. the assassination by some BosniaSerb student of Archduke Francis Ferdinand in Sarajevo in June of 1914. an event which he points out touched off the First World War. In the interwar period: Serbia imposed a centralized state. which it dominated. and faced resistance from Croats. who wanted a loose federation. Bosnian Muslims. while unhappy with Serb domination. reached a niodus vivendi with Serb leaders in exchange for religious toleration and an easing of land reform provisions that threatened Muslim landowners in the province. Nevertheless. hundreds of thousands of Slaviu Muslims emigrated to Turkey. After the German conquest of Yugoslavia in 1941. BosniaHercegovina was annexed to the Independent State of Croatia. a puppet state headed by the Croatian fascist Ustashe (Uprising) movement.
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