YUGOSLAVIA

Yugoslavia in the south-east Europe included Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia plus two autonomous Serbian provinces Kosovo and Vojvodina.

Yugoslavia started to exist after the First World War as the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, made up of the south Slavic provinces of the former AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE.

KING PETER I

In 1921 the son ALEXANDER I of King Peter I came to power. The Serbian premier Nikola Pasic held the rival nation together. After his death in 1926 internal turmoil drove the new king to a royal dictatorship and named it Yugoslavia in 1929. He tried to move the country toward democracy but was assassinated in 1934.

When the Second World War broke out the German invaded Yugoslavia. A fascist puppet state Croatia emerged and ruled by Ante Pavelic.

A civil war broke out between Draza Mihailovic and Marshal Tito’s communist partisans but both groups were fighting the Germans

KING ALEXANDER I

In 1945, Tito being supported by the Soviet Union established the Social Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

In 1948 Stalin expelled the country from the Soviet Union because of its positive neutrality. Tito established further ties with the West and when Stalin died the country renewed its diplomatic with the Soviet and were included again in 1955.

Yugoslavi was one of the free countries of the Soviet bloh.

In 1980, Tito died and a multi-party system was introduced in Slovenia and Croatia.

      MARSHALL TITO                                                                            

In 1990 a rebellion broke out led by the Serb’s minority which received support from Serbia. During the same time Serbia suppressed an uprising by Albanian majority in the province of Kosovo.

It all led to a full scale civil war in 1991.

The confrontation between Serbs, Muslim and Croats lasted till 1995 when a peace accord was signed in Dayton, USA.