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Assassination of the Archduke
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Austria-Hungary collapses
The former Yugoslavia Bosnia-Hercegovina becomes part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes. This kingdom was comprised of ethnically different areas. -
Kingdom of Yugoslavia
In a unification effort, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes is renamed the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. -
Bosnia-Hervegovina during World War II
For more information,click here. Germany leads an attack on Yugoslavia, including Bosnia-Hercegovina. Thousands of Serbs, Jews, and Gypsies are sent to death camps in Croatia. -
Chetniks
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A Serbian resistance group that wanted to protect Serbs from Croats, Germans, Muslims and Communists.They strove to create an ethnically pure Serbia by violently cleansing these areas of Croats and Muslims. -
Bosnia-Hercegovina liberated
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Bosnia-Hercegovina is liberated under Josep Broz Tito. -
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
From 1945-1991, in the aftermath of WWII, Bosnia is part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, a socialist/communist state. -
Tito dies
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After Tito's death, growing nationalism in teh various republics threaten to split the union apart. -
Milosevic
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Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic encouraged discontent between Serbians in Bosnia and Croatia and their Croatian, Bosniak, and Albanian neighbors. -
Communism collapses
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Communism collapses, and fighting breaks out among the different ethnic groups that had made up the former Yugoslavia. Slovenia, Croatia and Macedonia declare their independence. -
Bosnian War
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From 1992-1995, Bosnian Serbs engage in ethnic cleansing against Muslims in Bosnia. Over 200,000 Muslim civilians were systematically murdered. More than 20,000 were missing and feared dead, while 2,000,000 had become refugees by 1995. -
US Intervention
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On August 30, 1995, the US led a NATO bombing campaign. On November 1, 1995, leaders of the warring factions, including Milosevic went to the US for peace talks. After three weeks of negotiations, peace was declared.
