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  2. Breakup of Yugoslavia - Wikipedia

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    Both quislings were confronted and eventually defeated by the communist-led, anti-fascist Partisan movement composed of members of all ethnic groups in the area, leading to the formation of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The official Yugoslav post-war estimate of victims in Yugoslavia during World War II was 1,704,000.

  3. Yugoslav Wars - Wikipedia

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    Yugoslav Wars; Part of the breakup of Yugoslavia and the post–Cold War era: Clockwise from top-left: Officers of the Slovenian National Police Force escort captured soldiers of the Yugoslav People's Army back to their unit during the Slovenian War of Independence; a destroyed M-84 tank during the Battle of Vukovar; anti-tank missile installations of the Serbia-controlled Yugoslav People's ...

  4. Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia - Wikipedia

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    The post-war era saw the flight or expulsions of the Italian and German minorities. [32] Before the war, Yugoslavia had a population of half-million volksdeutsche (ethnic Germans), of whom the majority fled to the Reich in 1944-1945. [32]

  5. Yugoslavia - Wikipedia

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    Yugoslavia (/ ˌ j uː ɡ oʊ ˈ s l ɑː v i ə /; lit. ' Land of the South Slavs ') [a] was a country in Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 to 1992. It came into existence following World War I, [b] under the name of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes from the merger of the Kingdom of Serbia with the provisional State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, and constituted the ...

  6. Timeline of the Yugoslav Wars - Wikipedia

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    The first democratic elections in 45 years are held in Yugoslavia in an attempt to bring the Yugoslav socialist model into the new, post–Cold War world. Nationalist options win majorities in almost all republics. The Croatian winning party, HDZ offers a vice-presidential position to the Serb Radical Party, which refuses.

  7. World War II in Yugoslavia - Wikipedia

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    The war, known in the post-Yugoslavia states as the April War, lasted little more than ten days, ending with the unconditional surrender of the Royal Yugoslav Army on 17 April. Not only hopelessly ill-equipped compared to the German Army ( Heer ), the Yugoslav army attempted to defend all of its borders, thinly spreading its scarce resources.

  8. Timeline of the breakup of Yugoslavia - Wikipedia

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    The breakup of Yugoslavia was a process in which the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was broken up into constituent republics, and over the course of which the Yugoslav wars started. The process generally began with the death of Josip Broz Tito on 4 May 1980 and formally ended when the last two remaining republics ( SR Serbia and SR ...

  9. File:Map of war in Yugoslavia, 1992.svg - Wikipedia

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    English: Map of former Yugoslavia during last wars. War political entities in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovia are marked. War political entities in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovia are marked. Date