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3 days ago · The Croatian War of Independence was an armed conflict fought from 1991 to 1995 between Croat forces loyal to the Government of Croatia — which had declared independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) — and the Serb -controlled Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) and local Serb forces, with the JNA ending its combat operations...
1 day ago · This nation lasted from 1918 to 1941, when it was invaded by the Axis powers during World War II, which provided support to the Croatian fascist Ustaše (founded in 1929), whose regime carried out the genocide of Serbs, Jews and Roma by executing people in concentration camps and committing other systematic and mass crimes inside its territory. [9]
6 days ago · The Battle of Vukovar was an 87-day siege of Vukovar in eastern Croatia by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), supported by various paramilitary forces from Serbia, between August and November 1991. Before the Croatian War of Independence the Baroque town was a prosperous, mixed community of Croats, Serbs and other ethnic groups.
- Vukovar, Croatia
Sep 13, 2024 · Bosnian War, ethnically rooted war (1992–95) in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a former republic of Yugoslavia with a multiethnic population comprising Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims), Serbs, and Croats.
- John R. Lampe
- The Bosnian War was fought in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995.
- The number of people killed during the Bosnian War has been contested. Broadly accepted independent estimates today put the death toll at about 100...
- The most prominent people charged with committing war crimes during the Bosnian War were Slobodan Milošević, who died in prison before his trial en...
- The Bosnian War ended after a final cease-fire was negotiated at Dayton, Ohio, U.S. The Dayton Accords called for a federalized Bosnia and Herzegov...
Aug 30, 2024 · Date: 1929 - 2003. Major Events: World War II. Paris Peace Conference. Resistance. Helsinki Accords. Tripartite Pact. Key People: Bill Clinton. Josip Broz Tito. Slobodan Milosevic. Vojislav Kotunica. George F. Kennan. Related Topics: Partisan. Comecon. Little Entente.
3 days ago · World War II. in Croatia in History. Also known as: Hrvatska, Republic of Croatia, Republika Hrvatska. Written by. Dijana Pleština. Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science, College of Wooster, Ohio. Author of Regional Development in Communist Yugoslavia: Success, Failure and Consequences and others. Dijana Pleština,
Sep 9, 2024 · The war in Croatia started in July 1991. By the time of the cease-fire, signed in Sarajevo on January 3, 1992, Serbian rebels had captured Eastern Slavonia, Baranya, Western Slavonia, Banija, Kordun, eastern Lika and Knin Krajina. Serbian rebels had seized control of 5,791 square miles or 26.5 percent of Croatia's territory.
