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Fall of Yugoslavia (Summary of Fall of Communism (Prague Spring: attempted…
Fall of Yugoslavia
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Breakup of Yugoslavia, 1990s
December, 1989: Slobodan Milosevic elected President by Serbia.
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Yugoslavia's membership in the UN suspended because of atrocities and ethnic cleansing carried out by Bosnian Serbs against Muslims and Croats. Yugoslavia's economy badly affected because of international sanctions
Dayton Peace, 1995: Serbia recognises independence of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia.
Kosovo Question, 1999: Serbia invades Kosovo due to Albanian violence against Serbs. NATO undertook airstrikes on Belgrade until Serbia withdrew its forces
Milosevic loses support in Serbia. He was forced to resign after he tried to annul an election result, won by an opposition candidate. He was handed over to the International Court of Justice at The Hague to face criminal charges against humanity.
Communist Yugoslavia, 1945-1991
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Tito’s government nationalized various sectors of the economy, eliminated opposition groups and newspapers were suppressed.
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Tito kept Yugoslavia outside Iron Curtain and the Warsaw Pact, a factor that made Tito popular in the West.
In foreign affairs, Tito contributed to the setting up of the
Non-Aligned Movement in 1977.
Tito's final years were less successful. The economy suffered from inflation, unemployment, strikes and a huge
foreign trade deficit. Tension between Croats and Serbs, marked by riots, hijacking and assassinations led to
severe repression. Thousands of Croats and others who criticized the regime were expelled from the Party or
imprisoned.
After Tito's death, the country was governed by a system of collective leadership which rotated annually. Inflation and unemployment led to a decline in the standard of living.
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