POLITICAL ACTIVITIES OF CROATIAN IMMIGRANTS IN THE USA AND THE CREATION OF AN INDEPENDENT CROATIA
POLITICAL ACTIVITIES OF CROATIAN IMMIGRANTS IN THE USA AND THE CREATION OF AN INDEPENDENT CROATIA

Summary/Abstract: Croatian immigrants participated in the political life of both their old country and of their new homeland. At their conventions and other meetings, the Croatian organizations unequivocally expressed their demand for the full freedom of the Croatian people in Austria-Hungary. During World War I Croats, Serbs and Slovenes in the USA were very active in the movement against Austria-Hungary and the creation of a common state of the South Slavs. Between the two world wars the unfavourable political situation in the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes had a significant influence on the political activities of American Croats. Their program was to fight for the just political position of Croatians in the Yugoslav state, to inform the American public about the political demands of Croatians, and to provide material and moral aid. At the beginning of World War II, American Croats distanced themselves from the events in Yugoslavia by stressing that Croats were loyal citizens of the USA. In the first post-World War II years, Croatian political émigrés started to arrive in the United States.

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