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Dragiša Cvetković

1893–1969 · 20th century

Dragiša Cvetković was a Serbian politician who served as prime minister of Yugoslavia from 1939 to 1941. He concluded the 1939 agreement with Vladko Maček that created the Banovina of Croatia, and under heavy German pressure his government signed the Tripartite Pact in Vienna on 25 March 1941. He was overthrown two days later by the coup of General Dušan Simović and died in exile in Paris.

Dragiša Cvetković
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