Yugoslav Wars

The Yugoslav Wars were a series of conflicts fought in the former Yugoslavia between 1991 and 2001 that were a part of the Revolutions of 1989. which ended the Cold War. The conflicts were the Slovenian War of Independence (1991), the Croatian War of Independence (1991-1995), the Bosnian War (1992-1995) and the Kosovo War (1998-1999) .

The Kingdom of Yugoslavia was stared in 1918 after World War I after the collapse of Austria-Hungary, led by Charles I of Austria. In 1918, Austria-Hungary was split into Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania and Yugoslavia. In 1941, Nazi Germany invaded Yugoslavia during World War II. In 1944, both Tito and Stalin pushed the Gemans out of Belgrade with the help of Bulgaria. In 1948, Tito and Stalin broke up their friendship.

Relations between the Yugoslavs and the Soviets improved after the death of Stalin in 1953. When the invading Warsaw Pact powers ended the Prague Spring in 1968, Romania,Yugoslavia and Albania supported the Czechoslovaks, led by Alexander Dubček, against the Soviets, led by Leonid Brezhnev.

Tito died in 1980. Between 1991 and 1992, Yugoslavia started to collapse, which led to many wars. It is also some of the most brutal conflicts since World War II. It had one of the most brutal massacres since the Holocaust. It happened when General Ratko Mladić of the Bosnian-Serb Army massacred people in Bosnia in 1995 and is known as the Srebrenica massacre.

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