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After a period of political and economic crisis in the 1980s, the constituent republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia split apart, but the unresolved issues caused a series of inter-ethnic Yugoslav Wars. The wars primarily affected Bosnia and Herzegovina, neighbouring parts of Croatia and, some years later, Kosovo.
Yugoslavia, former country that existed in the west-central part of the Balkan Peninsula from 1929 until 2003. It included the current countries of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia, and the partially recognized country of Kosovo.
The Breakup of Yugoslavia, 1990–1992. Issued on October 18, 1990, National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) 15–90 presented a dire warning to the U.S. policy community: Yugoslavia will cease to function as a federal state within a year, and will probably dissolve within two.
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.
Yugoslavia - Federalism, Breakup, Nations: On June 25, 1991, Slovenia and Croatia declared their secession from the Yugoslav federation. Macedonia (now North Macedonia) followed suit on December 19, and in February–March 1992 Bosniaks (Muslims) and Croats voted to secede.
Timeline of Yugoslavia's formation and breakup: Nazi soldiers of the German Wehrmacht advance in Nis, Yugoslavia, in April 1941. Getty. Field Marshal Harold Alexander, left, confers over a large map with Gen Josip Tito at the latter's residence, the White Palace in Belgrade. Tito was president of Yugoslavia from 1953 until his death in 1980. Getty.
Timeline: Break-up of Yugoslavia. A brief history of the dramatic and violent changes that took place as the Yugoslav Federation disintegrated during the 1990s. 1991-1992: DISINTEGRATION....
In 1991, Slovenia and Croatia each declared complete independence from Yugoslavia. A bloody war then broke out in Croatia where Serbs tried to create their own state. A year later, Macedonia ...
Often described as one of Europe's deadliest armed conflicts since World War II, the Yugoslav Wars were marked by many war crimes, including genocide, crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing, massacres, and mass wartime rape.
October 1997 - Why did the Yugoslav state end? And why was its dismemberment violent? One approach to answering these questions is to compare Yugoslavia with Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union--the other two states in the region that broke apart following the collapse of Communist Party rule, but significantly did so in a peaceful manner.