Yugoslavia

War II, the Yugoslavia War has been infamous for the war crimes, which include ethnic cleansing, crimes against humanity and rape. These wars supplemented and aided the weathering of the Yugoslav state, when its constituent republics declared independence, but the issues of ethnic minorities in the new countries (chiefly Serbs, Croats and Albanians) were still unsettled at the time the republics were accepted internationally. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was

Yugoslavia was the first European country to perish since World War II. The country consisted of six republics, each with its own parliament and president: these were the SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SR Croatia, SR Macedonia, SR Montenegro, SR Slovenia, and SR Serbia and autonomous provinces Kosovo and Vajvodina. Yugo means south and Slavia means land of the “slavs”. Its’ disintegration was caused by a number of political, social and economic factors including the Yugoslav wars (ethnic cleansings)

The Dissolution of Yugoslavia The country of Yugoslavia was first formed as a kingdom in 1918 after combining land areas from the now both defunct Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Empires and then recreated as a Socialist state in 1945 after the Axis powers were defeated in World War II. The Soviet Union took control of Yugoslavia after the war and wrote a new constitution for the country that established six constituent republics in the federation: Bosnia-Hercegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro

Yugoslavia fell in the 1990’s into a mess of right-wing nationalistic states at war, resulted in numerous war crime, the bitter end was the result of the fragmented political atmosphere in the wake of Tito’s death. Significantly, though, the Soviet Union came to a relatively peaceful end due to Gorbachev’s leadership style, while the inability for different factions to compromise led to Milošević’s rise and the disturbing events of the 1990’s. Tito’s government, while deservedly less notorious than

Carole Rogel pointed out that the strongest support for Markovic and a united Yugoslavia came from abroad, from the European governments, the United States government, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The EC tried to stop the war, holding weekly meetings, usually in The Hague, and brokering more than a dozen failed truces

1. Based on this document, what was the negative consequence of the breakup of Communist Yugoslavia for its citizens? The negative consequence of the breakup of Communist Yugoslavia was “scenes of mass killings of unarmed victims. It is clearly said that the Serb forces, ignoring the Security Council’s presence, proceeded to depopulate the territory of Srebrenica within 48 hours, which caused the death of thousands men and boys. 2. In what ways did Serbian goals conflict with the ideology that motivated

One of the youngest nations of Europe, Yugoslavia was created after World War I as a homeland for several different rival ethnic groups. The country was put together mostly from remnants of the collapsed Ottoman Empire and Austria-Hungary. Demands for self-determination by Slovenes, Croats, Serbs, and others were ignored. Yugoslavia thus became an uneasy association of peoples conditioned by centuries of ethnic and religious hatreds. World War II aggravated these rivalries, but Communist dictatorship

Yugoslavia was a very successful country under the lead of Josip Broz Tito. Yugoslavia was made of 6 Republics and those were: Croatia, Montenegro ,Bosnia & Herzegovina, Montenegro, Slovenia, Serbia, Macedonia and Kosovo together with Vojvodina which at that time were recognized as provinces. After the death of Tito Yugoslavia began to demolish. The collapse of Yugoslavia began in 1980, and it continued until the 27th of April 1992, which in history is known as the date when Yugoslavia totally

The Tragedy in Yugoslavia Imagine being in the middle of a bloody, tragic war; your relatives are dying and your city being completely destroyed and reduced to rubble. This is what it was like for the citizens living in Yugoslavia from 1992 to 1995 during the atrocious Yugoslav Genocide (Bosnian Genocide). During this war for independence, over two hundred thousand people died and around two million people fled from the region (Civil War). The Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina was the main place of

Peace in Yugoslavia From 1919 Until 1980 Peace in Yugoslavia meant unity. The country was a drawing together of different groups, which held together from 1919 to the 1980. Before the First World War the Austria ruled the individual countries of Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia as well as other countries such as Hungary as part of the Hapsburg Empire. The other big empire was the Turkish Ottoman Empire. All the individual areas had different ethnic groups and religions