The form of the new government was agreed upon in a second Tito–Šubašić agreement signed on 1 November 1944 in the recently liberated Yugoslav capital of Belgrade.

The state was formed to unite the Yugoslav resistance movement to the occupation of Yugoslavia by the Axis powers.

[5] After the deposition of King Peter II, the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia was proclaimed on 29 November 1945.

[7] The People's Front coalition, headed by the Communist Party of Yugoslavia and its general secretary Marshal Josip Broz Tito, was a major movement within the government.

Communists held 22 minister positions, including Finances, Internal Affairs, Justice, Transport and others.