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A former socialist state in Southeastern Europe that existed from 1945 to 1992. It was led by Josip Broz Tito and had a non-aligned foreign policy, but disintegrated into several independent countries after his death.
The Yugoslav Wars were a series of ethnic conflicts, wars of independence, and insurgencies that took place from 1991 to 2001 in the region of the former Yugoslavia. They resulted in the breakup of Yugoslavia into six independent countries, massive deaths and displacements, and war crimes trials.
Yugoslavia was a South Slavic country that existed from 1918 to 1992, under different political systems and names. It was invaded by the Axis powers in World War II, led by communist leader Tito, and disintegrated into several independent states after a crisis in the 1980s.
1945. The victorious resistance army known as the Yugoslav Partisans form the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, a communist union of several nations.. 1948–1952. Tito–Stalin split leads to Yugoslavia breaking away from Moscow's influence.
Neither of them is a full member state of NAM with Bosnia and Herzegovina's application being refused in 1995. [28] Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ( Serbia and Montenegro ), one of the five immediate successor states to the former SFR Yugoslavia, asserted itself as the sole legal successor entitled to automatic memberships in international ...
George H. W. Bush, in a meeting with the Yugoslav president of the Presidency, gives full support to Yugoslavia. 2 October: Croatian Serbs declare their autonomy on vaguely worded referendum on Serbian autonomy conducted throughout Yugoslavia. Croatia's government has repeatedly said that the Serbs' referendum is illegal. [41] 3 October
The Bosnian War was an international armed conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1992 to 1995, involving Bosniaks, Croats, Serbs and other factions. The war was part of the breakup of Yugoslavia and resulted in the Dayton Accords and the partition of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The League of Communists of Yugoslavia, [a] known until 1952 as the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, [b] was the founding and ruling party of SFR Yugoslavia.It was formed in 1919 as the main communist opposition party in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and after its initial successes in the elections, it was proscribed by the royal government and was at times harshly and violently ...