* 2012 – The Independent State of Azawad is declared.

* 1941 – World War II: The Ustashe, a Croatian far-right organization is put in charge of the Independent State of Croatia by the Axis Powers after the Axis Operation 25 invasion.

* 1941 – World War II: The Axis Powers in Europe establish the Independent State of Croatia from occupied Yugoslavia with Ante Pavelić's Ustaše fascist insurgents in power.

Membership in the Commonwealth of Independent States, as well as the 1996 treaty on the Union of Russia and Belarus and the Treaty of the Formation of a Union State in 1999, has confirmed a close partnership with Russia.

The Axis occupation of Yugoslavia in 1941 allowed the Croatian radical right Ustaše to come into power, forming the " Independent State of Croatia ", led by Ante Pavelić, who assumed the role of Poglavnik (" Head-man ") Nezavisne Drzave Hrvatske (" Leader of the Independent State of Croatia ").

Following the defeat of the Independent State of Croatia at the end of the war, a large number of Ustaše, and civilians supporting them ( ranging from sympathisers, young conscripts, anti-communists, and ordinary serfs who were allegedly motivated by Partisan crimes ) attempted to flee in the direction of Austria hoping to surrender to British forces and to be given refuge.

Moreover, in Yugoslavia there existed the Jasenovac concentration camp ( August 1941 – April 1945 ), which was the only central extermination camp outside of Poland, and the only one not operated by Nazis, but by the fascist Ustaše forces of the Independent State of Croatia, the majority of whose victims were Orthodox Christian Serbs, Roma, and Jews.

Poglavnik Ante Pavelić of the Independent State of Croatia and Joachim von Ribbentrop in Salzburg, 6 June 1941

On 10 April 1941, Slavko Kvaternik proclaimed the Independent State of Croatia, Tito responded by forming a Military Committee within the Central Committee of the Yugoslav Communist Party.

* Independent State of Macedonia

* Day of the Establishment of an Independent Czecho-Slovak State, celebrates the independence of Czechoslovakia from Austria-Hungary in 1918.

Papua New Guinea ( PNG ; Tok Pisin: Papua Niugini ), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea ( the western portion of the island is a part of the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua ) and numerous offshore islands.

Samoa (; Samoan: Sāmoa, ), officially the Independent State of Samoa ( Samoan: Malo Sa ' oloto Tuto ' atasi o Sāmoa ), formerly known as Western Samoa, is a country encompassing the western part of the Samoan Islands in the South Pacific Ocean.

The Independent State of Samoa, formerly known as Western Samoa, is a country encompassing the western part of the Samoan Islands in the South Pacific Ocean.

The highest-ranking Greens ever elected in the nation were: John Eder, a member of the Maine House of Representatives until his defeat in November 2006 ; Audie Bock, elected to the California State Assembly in 1999 but switched her registration to Independent seven months later running as an independent in the 2000 election ; and Richard Carroll, elected to the Arkansas House of Representatives in 2008 but switched parties to become a Democrat five months after his election.

The Independent State of Croatia was established as a Nazi satellite state, ruled by the fascist militia known as the Ustaše that came into existence in 1929, but was relatively limited in its activities until 1941.

Aruba presents the mandate of the Aruban People for Aruba to become an Independent Country, under the souvereignty of the House of Orange, based on Aruba's first state constitution presented officially since August 1947, and a ( 4th ) Member State of the future Dutch Commonwealth.

For example, the Independent Party of Oregon cross-nominated five major party candidates, winning races for the U. S. Senate, Oregon State Treasurer, and the Oregon House of Representatives in 2008.

In 2008, a lawsuit was brought by the Independent Party of Oregon against the Oregon Secretary of State claiming that modifications to the ballot design statute in 1995 once again required the state to list multiple nominating parties on the candidate's ballot line.

Serbia was occupied by the Nazis and the Fascist puppet state of the Independent State of Croatia was established.

In addition, an estimated 120, 000 Serbs were deported from the Independent State of Croatia into the area governed by the Military Administration in Serbia, while an estimated 300, 000 fled in 1943.

* Independent State of Croatia ( 1941 – 1945 )-The Independent State of Croatia ( Nezavisna Država Hrvatska or NDH ) was a German and Italian puppet régime.

Gavazzi was born in Split ( then in Austria-Hungary ) and died in Zagreb ( then in the Independent State of Croatia ).

* Independent Trade Unions of Croatia, or Nezavisni Hrvatski Sindikati ( NHS )

Jasenovac concentration camp ( Croatian, Serbian: ; ; ;, sometimes spelled " Yasenovatz ") was an extermination camp established in the Independent State of Croatia ( NDH ) during World War II.

These laws were followed by a decree for ' the Protection of the Nation and the State ' of 17 April 1941, which mandated the death penalty for the offence of high treason if a person did or had done " harm to the honour and vital interests of the Croatian nation or endangered the existence of the Independent State of Croatia ".

On 10 April 1941, the Independent State of Croatia was established, supported by Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, and adopted similar racial and political doctrines.

Jasenovac was located in the German occupation zone of the Independent State of Croatia.

# Ustashi and the Independent State of Croatia 1941-1945, by Fikreta Jelic-Butic, Liber, Zagreb, 1977.

By cobbling together Bosnia and Herzegovina, some parts of Croatia, and Syrmia, the " Independent State of Croatia " ( Nezavisna Država Hrvatska, NDH ) was created by Germany and Italy.

Croatia after the first Yugoslavia would be called the Independent State of Croatia ( NDH, Nezavisna drzava Hrvatska, 1941 – 1945 ).

After the fall of Sarajevo on 16 April 1941 to Nazi Germany, the Yugoslav provinces of Croatia, Bosnia, and Herzegovina were recreated as fascist satellite states, Nezavisna Država Hrvatska ( NDH, the Independent State of Croatia ).

* The Independent State of Croatia ( Nezavisna Država Hrvatska )

* 1910: The party merged with the Croatian Party of the Right ( Hrvatska Strannka Prava ) into the Croatian Independent Party ( Hrvatska Samostalna Stranka )

The western parts of the country together with Bosnia and Herzegovina were turned into a Nazi puppet state called the Independent State of Croatia ( NDH ) and ruled by the Ustashe.

After being warned by novelist and Independent State of Croatia ( NDH ) minister Mile Budak that the Croatian authorities could not guarantee his safety in Split, he moved to Zagreb in September 1941.

Within a few weeks, Benito Mussolini required the newly formed Nazi puppet-state, the so-called Independent State of Croatia ( NDH ) to hand over almost all of Dalmatia ( including Split ) to fascist Italy under the Treaty of Rome.

The Independent State of Croatia (), often referred to simply by the abbreviation NDH, was a World War II puppet state of Nazi Germany established on a part of Axis-occupied Yugoslavia.

On 18 May 1941, he was nominated by his cousin, King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy to assume the kingship of the Independent State of Croatia ( NDH ), a German puppet state in occupied Yugoslavia.

Catholic clergy involvement with the Ustaše covers the role of the Croatian Catholic Church in the Independent State of Croatia ( NDH ), a Nazi puppet state created on the territory of Axis-occupied Yugoslavia in 1941.

After the capitulation of Italy in 1943, the Partisans temporarily liberated Split and disarmed the Italian garrison, but the Germans re-occupied the city and granted it to the fascist puppet government of the Independent State of Croatia ( NDH ) they had installed in Zagreb in 1941.

The attitude of the club did not change when the NDH authorities attempted to include Hajduk in the Independent State of Croatia Cup ; the NDH earned resentment in Split for allying and partitioning them to Italy.

On 3 May 1945, the government of the Independent State of Croatia ( NDH ), a fascist puppet state established in the Croatian and Bosnian parts of occupied Yugoslavia, decided to flee to Austria and have the remnants of the Croatian Armed Forces ( HOS ) move there as soon as possible in order to surrender to the British Army.

Germany occupied northern Slovenia, while retaining direct occupation over a rump Serbian state and considerable influence over its newly created puppet state, the Independent State of Croatia ( NDH ), which extended over much of today's Croatia and contained all of modern Bosnia and Herzegovina and Syrmia region of modern day Serbia.

The dissolution of Yugoslavia, the creation of the NDH, Independent State of Montenegro and Nedic's Serbia and the annexations of Yugoslav territory by the various Axis countries were incompatible with international law in force at that time.

In 1945, the Partisans, numbering over 800, 000 strong defeated the Armed Forces of the Independent State of Croatia and the Wehrmacht, achieving a hard-fought breakthrough in the Syrmian front in late winter, taking Sarajevo in early April, and the rest of the NDH and Slovenia through mid-May.

* Croatian Armed Forces ( NDH ), abbreviated " HOS " in Croatian, the military of the Independent State of Croat

The plans for Greater Montenegrin state proved fruitless as most of Herzegovina was taken by the Nazi-puppet Independent State of Croatia ( NDH ), the Bay of Kotor was annexed to Italy and a fascist Greater Albania took not only Metohija, but also even eastern parts of Montenegro.

Andrija Artuković ( 29 November 1899 – 16 January 1988 ) was a Croatian politician and lawyer, Ustaše intellectual and minister in the Government of the Independent State of Croatia ( NDH ).

However, the Croatian Football Federation continued to run a competition called the Croatian national football league in the territory of Independent State of Croatia ( NDH ), a fascist puppet state which enjoyed relative peace during World War II, and which included most of present-day countries of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

* Following the April 1941 invasion of Yugoslavia the Independent State of Croatia ( NDH ), an Axis-allied puppet state which included most of the territories of present-day Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, was established.