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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 in the early 1990s. . Unresolved issues from the breakup caused a series of inter-ethnic Yugoslav Wars from 1991 to 2001 which primarily affected Bosnia and Herzegovina, neighbouring parts of Croatia and, some years later, K
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 ...
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.
Croatian War of Independence. Part of the Yugoslav Wars Croatia. Supported by: Albania Hungary Germany Poland SFR Yugoslavia (1991–1992) Republic of Serbian Krajina (1991–1995) Republika Srpska (1992–1995) Supported by: Greece Russia China India. 1991 1991 Ten-Day War. Part of the Yugoslav Wars Slovenia. Supported by: Germany Italy
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 ...
Borisav Jović was a close ally and advisor of Slobodan Milošević and served as the Serbian member of the collective Presidency of Yugoslavia during the late 1980s and early 1990s. He served as the Vice President of the Yugoslav Presidency from 1989 to 1990 and then as the President of Yugoslavia from 1990 to 1991.
The Ten-Day War (Slovene: desetdnevna vojna), or the Slovenian War of Independence (Slovene: slovenska osamosvojitvena vojna), [7] was a brief armed conflict that followed Slovenia's declaration of independence from Yugoslavia on 25 June 1991. [8]
The war came about as a result of the breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. A crisis emerged in Yugoslavia as a result of the weakening of the confederational system at the end of the Cold War. In Yugoslavia, the national communist party, the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, lost ideological potency.