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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 ...
The Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) subjects the formerly-republic and -territorial defense system to a central command, effectively disarming Croatia and Slovenia. 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.
Yugoslavia occupied a significant portion of the Balkan Peninsula, including a strip of land on the east coast of the Adriatic Sea, stretching southward from the Bay of Trieste in Central Europe to the mouth of Bojana as well as Lake Prespa inland, and eastward as far as the Iron Gates on the Danube and Midžor in the Balkan Mountains, thus including a large part of Southeast Europe, a region ...
The government of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, established on 28 April 1992 as a rump state by the remaining Yugoslav republics of Montenegro and Serbia, [7] claimed itself as the legal successor state of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia; [8] however, on 30 May 1992, United Nations Security Council Resolution 757 was ...
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 ...
April 25: Đuro Đaković, a prominent Trade unions' activist in Yugoslavia and the First secretary of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, was murdered by Yugoslav policemen at the Yugoslav-Austrian boundary in the present-day Slovenia, after four days of torturing and questioning in Zagreb police station.
Transition towards a multiparty political system in 1991/92; Dissolution of the armed forces of FNLA; Participation of UNITA and FNLA, as political parties, in the new political system, from 1991 and 1992 onward, but civil war continues; Jonas Savimbi killed in 2002; Immediate peace agreement and dissolution of the armed forces of UNITA in 2002
Non-alignment was a cornerstone of Yugoslavia's Cold War foreign policy and ideology. [1] As the only socialist state in Europe outside the Eastern Bloc, and one with strong economic ties to Western Europe , Yugoslavia pursued a careful policy of balancing and equidistance [ 2 ] between the United States , the Soviet Union , and China .