How did Yugoslavia Break apart?
The Yugoslavia statesman Marshal Tito became president of Yugoslavia in 1953. He directed the rebuilding of a Yugoslavia devastated in World War II and the bringing together of Yugoslavia’s different peoples until his death in 1980.After Tito’s death in 1980, economic problems and ethnic tensions grew. The weakness of the economy and of government leadership stimulated the growth of ethnic conflict, as autonomist movements in the individual republics and provinces threatened the viability of the nation. In the province of Kosovo, the majority population of ethnic Albanians clashed with Serbs and Montenegrins. In 1989 a Communist leader and outspoken nationalist, Slobodan Milošević, was elected president of Serbia. He aggressively pursued Serbian aims in Yugoslavia and oversaw his government’s takeover of the administration of Kosovo. n May 1991 Serbia blocked the installation of a Croat to head Yugoslavia’s collective presidency; on June 25 the parliaments of Croatia and Slovenia passe
