what are the reasons that lead to the breakup of yugoslavia?

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Answer 1

I can think of one big reason--that it had existed from 1918 onward as an artificial conglomeration of separate countries--first as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia from 1918-41, then as a socialist confederation until 1992. The only thing hold the area together was the Communist dictatorship of the Soviet Union; when that fell apart, the individual states making up Yugoslavia (Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, etc) naturally rebelled from the condition that had been forced on them for almost 75 years.

The situation there was similar to the present one in Iraq, which was formed out of three separate territories ( Mosul, Baghdad and Basra) and given to Britain as a "mandate". This is the real reason for the violence there, the fact that even after the (justifiable) overthrow of Saddam Hussein, the country is still being kept as an artificial state inhabited by three openly hostile factions. If there's a failure in U.S. policy in Iraq, its in our insistence on forming a democratic government there instead of allowing the natural break-up of Iraq into its separate parts, Yugoslavia-style.

Answer 2

It replaced right into a element, yet no longer the proximate reason. financial crumple replaced into the reason the Yugoslav Federation broke up. between the motives replaced into the tip of the chilly conflict between the U.S. and Soviet spheres of impression. Yugoslavia replaced into independent, and placed in between the "West" (U.S. allies in Europe) and the "East" (Soviet allies in Europe). So the two sides have been subsidizing Yugoslavia to maintain it from being ruled for the different facet. while this ended, Yugoslavia had an financial crises, and hyperinflation made its forex almost valueless.

Answer 3

It was a union of different ethnic groups with different cultures and the rest of the Yugoslavian ethnic groups were dissatisfied by the fact that the leading communist party was in favor of the Serbs. The only link between those groups was the communist party and general Tito

Answer 4

Marshall Tito died, and too many different ethnic groups under one umbrella.