Breakup of Yugoslavia
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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 break
Serbian President Slobodan Milošević's unequivocal desire to uphold the unity of Serbs, a status which was threatened by each republic breaking away from the federation, in addition to his opposition to the Albanian authorities in Kosovo, further inflamed ethnic tensions.
Croatian President Franjo Tuđman
Bosnian Muslim leader Alija Izetbegović
Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić
The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, known from 1945 to 1963 as the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia, and commonly referred to as Yugoslavia, was a country in Central and Southeast Eur
Breakup of Yugoslavia
…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…
Marshal Josip Broz Tito led Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1980.
Yugoslav ration stamps for milk, 1950
Tito in 1973
U.S.–Yugoslavia summit, 1978