Page "History of Croatia" Paragraph 33

In 1934, King Aleksandar was assassinated abroad, in Marseille, by a coalition of the Ustaše and a similarly radical movement, the Macedonian pro-Bulgarian VMORO.

The Serbian-Croatian Cvetković-Maček government that came to power, distanced Yugoslavia's former allies of France and the United Kingdom, and moved closer to Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany in the period of 1935 – 1941.

A national Banovina of Croatia was created in 1939 out of the two Banates, as well as parts of the Zeta, Vrbas, Drina and Danube Banates.

It had a reconstructed Croatian Parliament which would choose a Croatian Ban and Viceban.

This Croatia included a part of Bosnia ( region ), most of Herzegovina and the city of Dubrovnik and the surroundings.