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Osip Broz Tito was born on May 7, 1892 in Kumrovec, present-day Croatia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in an area called Zagorje -
In 1913 he was drafted into the Austro-Hungarian Army and reached the rank of sergeant major. -
In 1915 he was assigned to Galicia, in central Europe, to fight against Russia.12 While in Bukovina, a shell from a howitzer wounded his shoulder blade in March of that year. -
In the following years, Tito organized different demonstrations and had important political participation, which cost him to be in jail from 1928 to 1934. -
On April 10, the Politburo of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia met in the capital and decided to start the resistance, appointing Tito as Head of the Military Committee of the CPY shortly after (June 27, 1941). -
On June 22 of the same year, a group of 49 men attacked a German military train near Sisak; thus began the first anti-fascist uprisings in Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia. -
On July 4, Tito made a public call for armed resistance against the Nazi-fascist occupation. As the supreme commander of the Partisan People's Liberation and Separation Army of Yugoslavia, the partisans were the protagonists of a major guerrilla campaign. and began to liberate parts of the territory. -
In November 1945, Tito's Republicans of the Popular Front, led by the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, won the elections with an overwhelming majority. -
On April 5, 1945, Tito signed an agreement with the Soviet Union allowing "temporary entry of Soviet troops into Yugoslav territory." Aided by the Red Army, the partisans won the war against the Nazi armies in 1945 -
Josip Broz Tito died on May 4, 1980