Yugoslavia (/ ˌ j uː ɡ oʊ ˈ s l ɑː v i ə /; lit. 'Land of the South Slavs') was a country in Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 to 1992. It came into existence in 1918 following World War I, under the name of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes from the merger of the Kingdom of Serbia with the provisional State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs (which was formed from The Russian Empire gradually entered World War I during the three days before July 28, 1914. This began with Austria-Hungary 's declaration of war on Serbia, a Russian ally. Russia sent an ultimatum, via Saint Petersburg, to Vienna, warning Austria-Hungary not to attack Serbia. Following the invasion of Serbia, Russia began to mobilize the Having defied Stalin in 1948, Tito became the first communist leader to openly stand against the dictator and the fearful empire he had created. Tito rejected Stalin’s desire of controlling Yugoslavia, and made it clear that he wanted to create a neutral and independent country, which, despite its ideological closeness to the Soviets, would In 1946, Yugoslavia became a socialist federation of six republics: Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Macedonia. At this time, it adopted the name Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY). The U.S. shared diplomatic relations with the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia through 1992 when Slovenia “This was the first time that Israel is taking a position in internal Bosnia affairs, not helping the Jewish Community, or at the request of Jewish Community, but one political party in the country,” wrote Finci, who has previously petitioned to change the current system at the European Court of Human Rights. Some 8,000 boys and men were killed by Bosnian Serb forces when they overran the town of Srebrenica during a regional war in the Balkans in July 1995, the largest atrocity on European soil since the Second World War. The exhibition in the form of a timeline, explains how the genocide was planned and carried out. Europe. Craggily beautiful Bosnia and Hercegovina is most intriguing for its East-meets-West atmosphere born of blended Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian histories filtered through a Southern Slavic lens. Many still associate the country with the heartbreaking civil war of the 1990s, and the scars from that time are all too visible. Bosnia, the larger of the two regions, lies to the north of Herzegovina; the Croatian region of Dalmatia lies to the southwest; the Montenegrin region of Old Herzegovina lies to the southeast. The land area of Herzegovina is around 12,000 km 2 (4,600 sq mi), or around 23–24% of the country. Alija Izetbegovic – Bosnia’s first president led the country to independence in the 1992 referendum. He was one of the three leaders who negotiated the 1995 Dayton peace accords. What Was the Cause of The Bosnian War? The Bosnian War began in 1992 and lasted until 1995, though the cause of the Bosnian War has roots in World War II and its impact is still being felt in 2017. The war led to the deaths of around 100,000 people. It also spurred the genocide of at least 80 percent Bosnian Muslims, also called Bosniaks. PElw7W.