= ZA DOM SPREMNI =The Ustaša - Croatian Revolutionary Movement (Croatian: Ustaša - Hrvatski Revolucionarni Pokret, whose members were known collectively as Ustaše, but sometimes anglicized as "Ustasha" or "Ustashe") was a World War II-era Croatian independence [1][2] movement. It engaged in violent anti-Yugoslav activity before World War II[3] and ruled, under the protection of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, in part of Yugoslavia after that country was occupied by the Axis powers. As German forces withdrew from Yugoslavia in 1945, the Ustaše were pushed out of Croatia by the Yugoslav Partisans.

When it was founded in 1929, the Ustaše was a nationalist organization that sought to create an independent Croatian state. When the Ustaše came to power in the Independent State of Croatia, a state established by Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany during World War II, its military wing became the Ustaše Army (Ustaška Vojnica).[4]

Their name derives from the verb ustati which means "to rise" or "to stand-up," hence ustaša would mean an insurgent, or a rebel. This name did not have fascist connotations during their early years in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia as the term "ustat" was itself used in Herzegovina to denote the insurgents from the Herzegovinian rebellion of 1875. The full original name of the organization appeared in April 1931 as the Ustaša - Hrvatska revolucionarna organizacija or UHRO (Ustaša - Croatian revolutionary organization), though in 1933 it was renamed the Ustaša - Hrvatski revolucionarni pokret (Ustaša - Croatian revolutionary movement) which it kept until the Second World War.