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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 ...
Following World War I, the city was disputed between Italy and Yugoslavia, and eventually captured by Italy in 1921. The city passed to Yugoslavia after World War II and is now in Croatia. Couto Misto – Tiny 10th century border territory that was split between Spain and Portugal in 1864–8.
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
Yugoslavia supported Egypt during the Suez Crisis, a country which became one of the founding members of the Non-aligned movement. Yugoslavia developed its relations with India , another founding member, from the time of their concurrent mandate at the UN Security Council from the end of 1949 onward.
Axis occupation and partition of Yugoslavia in World War II. During World War II, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was occupied and partitioned by the Axis powers and was divided into 3 Axis puppet states: Independent State of Croatia; Italian governorate of Montenegro (later German occupied territory of Montenegro)
The first country in the world to officially recognize the new state was the United States. [2] After the creation of Yugoslavia the newly formed state was a status quo state in Europe which was opposed to revisionist states. [3] In this situation the country prominently was a part of the Little Entente and the first Balkan Pact.
Serbian leadership meets to assess the situation in Yugoslavia and agrees that war in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina is inevitable. 30 March: Meeting of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia without members from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia and Macedonia. 3 April: Members of the Croatian police are withdrawn from Kosovo. 8 April
The 1953 Balkan Pact signed by Greece, Turkey, and Yugoslavia allowed Yugoslavia to associate itself with NATO indirectly until 1956 and the end of Informbiro period. [3] In 1950 Yugoslav Radio Television became one of the founding members of the European Broadcasting Union and it canceled its membership in the IBO that same year.