In the 1890s and especially between the years of 1900 and 1914 dozens of families emigrated to the United States. In 1940 in Kruševlje was 907 inhabitants and in 1941 about 940, about 150 people less than 50 years before. There were 172 houses in 1890, about 200 in 1921 and 225 houses in 1940. During World War I more than 250 men from Kruševlje participated as soldiers in Austro-Hungarian army, and more than 150 were killed or wounded, mostly in Galicia on the Eastern front.