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Women's suffrage had been promised when Yugoslavia was created, but when the promise was not fulfilled, the Yugoslav Women's Alliance organized campaigns in favor of the reform. They also campaigned for other reforms in favor of women's rights and gender equality, such as civil marriage, marital property rights, custody of children and women's ...
On December 1, 1961, the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) published a 288-page book entitled Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications. [1] This massive list, annotated with notes documenting the first official government mention of alleged communist affiliation, superseded a very similar list published on January 2, 1957. [1]
The Women’s Movements’ Alliance was a women's rights organization in Yugoslavia, founded in 1923.It was initially known as the Feminist Alliance of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, changed name to Feminist Alliance (FA— Feministička Alijansa), and in 1926 to Women’s Movements’ Alliance or AŽP— Alijansa ženskih pokreta / Alijansa ženskih pokretov).
The Yugoslav Partisans, [note 1] [11] or the National Liberation Army, [note 2] officially the National Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Yugoslavia, [note 3] [12] was the communist-led anti-fascist resistance to the Axis powers (chiefly Nazi Germany) in occupied Yugoslavia during World War II.
In Croatia, the organization was named the Antifascist front of women of Croatia. [4] In Slovenia there were a number of titles: Antifascist women association, Antifascist Front Women, Antifascist Front of Women. It was founded under the name of Slovenian Antifascist Women Association. There was also a Slovenian Anti-Italian Women's Union.
The Yugoslav Army (Serbo-Croatian: Jugoslovenska vojska, JV, Југословенска војска, ЈВ), commonly the Royal Yugoslav Army, was the principal ground force of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. It existed from the establishment of Yugoslavia in December 1918 until its surrender to the Axis powers on 17 April 1941.
The treatment of women was a fundamental difference between the Chetniks and Partisans [122] and Chetnik propaganda disparaged the female role in the Partisans. [121] Ruth Mitchell (ca. 1889–1969) was a reporter who was the only American woman to serve with the Chetniks. Fluent in German, she worked for the Chetniks as a spy and a courier for ...
Yugoslav Americans are Americans of full or partial Yugoslav ancestry. In the 2021 Community Surveys, there were 210,395 people who indicated Yugoslav or Yugoslav American as their ethnic origin; [1] a steep and steady decrease from previous censuses (233,325 in 2019; [2] 276,360 in 2016 [3]) and nearly a 36% decrease from the 2000 Census when there were over 328,000.