Can someone give me a brief history of Croatia's relationship with Yugoslavia?

Question

I'm doing a report and a lot of the websites don't make something like this very clear to a 7th grader. Little help please? I'm making a Power Point so it's not like I'm going to copy it. Please and Thanks!

Answer 1

Croatia (along with Slovenia and Bosnia & Herzegovina) joined with Serbia and Montenegro to form the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later renamed Yugoslavia) in 1918 at the conclusion of WWI.



Croatia and Serbia, being the two most populous and powerful ethnic groups, had a very different view of how the Kingdom should be governed. Serbs wanted a more centralized government and Croats wanted a more decentralized government,



As the government was centralized, these differences led to Croats wanting either more power within the state or a separation from it. WWII provided that opportunity but Croatia was setup as a puppet state of Nazi Germany.



At the conclusion of the war Tito united the country again under communism. Upon his death, the old grievances resurfaces resulting in the Serbian Milosevic wanting centralized power and the western republics led by Slovenia and Croatia wanting more autonomy.



An agreement could not be reached so Slovenia and Croatia declared Independence but this was opposed by Serbia which used force to try and take as much land away from Croatia (and eventually Bosnia & Herzegovina) and unite it to Serbia to create a Greater Serbia.



Serbia's plan failed, Croatia was recognized as an independent country in 1991 and all Croatia's lands were under Croatian control by 1998.

Answer 2

Croatia used to be part of Yugoslavia, perhaps this is causing the confusion. Following the Second World War the victorious Allies altered the map of Europe, giving more land and assets to the victors, and taking from the losers. Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia were grouped together as Yugoslavia despite the fact that they were not the same people, the same religion or anything else. Obviously this created stacks of problems and caused the war that was. Sadly, this is pretty much all the help I can offer.

Answer 3

Croatia was an integral part of the Austrian-Hungarian kingdom and shared its historical and cultural experience with it, such as Catholic faith, industrialization, and germanization. Serbia was conquered by Ottoman empire and shared much of its history with different civilization than Croatia. Serbia became independent in 19th century, while Croatia was still part of Austrian monarchy. These two nations, Serbs and Croats believed that they could overcome diverse social, cultural, religious, economical, and political tradition within one country, because they were related by language. However, when Yugoslavia was created in 1918, the differences were too big to ignore, but it was Serbian supremacy and dominance that prevailed over the rest of the southern Slavs. Croatia was the main industrial and financial hub of the state due experiencing 19th century industrialization and being tied to German and Austrian capital, but did not share much political power in the Yugoslav kingdom. This division caused the country to fall apart in WWII. Yugoslavia witnessed one the most brutal fighting in Europe, that was often among themselves as well as against German and Italian occupiers. Croatia allied itself with Germany and shared its defeat with it.

Postwar socialistic Yugoslavia under Tito attempted to equalized the national issues by creating federation, and weaken Serbian position within the state, but it was highly centralized country, when the will rested in the hand of one man. Croatia experienced harsh postwar wrath of the socialistic regime, but eventually, the 60's and 70's created a period of prosperity, normality and relative freedom. Croatia had significant boom from tourism and its living standard increased tremendously. With it came a demand to keep the wealth inside the republic, since Croatian GDP was higher per capita than in rest of Yugoslavia, with exception of Slovenia. Economic demands also fueled secession, but as long Tito was in power, they were suppressed.

In the 1980's, Yugoslavia experienced recession and blame that one republic is paying for the other. Croatia being second wealthiest republic in the federation with better industrial base suffered less than Yugoslavia. Economy went down, inflation and unemployment up, and the secession from the federation became reality.

The antagonism between Serbians and Croatians fueled armed conflict, when one wanted to keep the country intact, while other wanted to be independent. This lead to prolonged war that started in 1991 and ended in 1995, in which 1/3 of Croatian territory was destroyed. However, at the end with backing of NATO, Croatia succeeded and Yugoslavia became failed country in the histrory.

Answer 4

I see 3 people Thumbs down Dont like the Truth the Camps are fact and the Murdered serbs deserve

to be Remembered



the Independent state of croatia was formed during WW2 about 1941



and the Government set up 2 Extermination camps that Murdered about 700,000 and exported 10 of thousands of Jews to Auschwitz



the Name of the camps that carried out Croatia's ethnic cleansing of the Serbs was called



Jasenovac and Sajmiste do a search and this will explain Croatia's relationship with the people of Yugoslavia which was only quelled by Russia's occupation hence the Baltic war where everyone blamed the serbs

Answer 5

Croatia was part of Yugoslavia in until after the soviet break up(when the soviet unions countries broke up in 1991 from economic problems) After a few years Yugoslavia collapsed and Croatia was on of a group of new nations, wikipedia.org has more

Answer 6

Detaching from Austria-Hungary, Croatia became part of the formation of the Kingdom of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, which in 1929 became known as Yugoslavia.



The key to understanding this problem is that the radical political stream was not in favor of the unification with Serbs and Slovenes, but Croatia did unify voluntarily under a Serb king. A radical Croat leader Stjepan Radic was assassinated by Serbs, because of the constant bashing of the Serb role in WW1 (50% of the Serb male population, or 26% of the total, was killed in WW1). This was followed by the assassination of the Serb king by Croats.



Nationalism exploded, Croatia's goal was independence through Yugoslavia and not remain in it, so in 1941 it proclaimed itself independent under the protectorate of Nazi Germany. Besides independence, Croatia was cleansing itself from Jews, Gypsies and Serbs.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWGyTPu6UDE



In 1945 the war ended and Croatia, becoming again part of Yugoslavia, became a socialist republic, but in 1991, after firstly seeking confederate status, it grabbed its chance with the fall of the Soviet Union and unification of its mother Germany, declaring unilateral independence and degrading Croat Serbs from legal constitutive into legal minority. This was followed with a war against Croat Serbs and Yugoslav military forces, which was supported by Germany and USA in their destruction of Yugoslavia.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPGlBZ69VlA



The core relationship of Croatia with Yugoslavia can be described with one word: "Ustasha"... Basically, it is all about independence and extermination of Serbs in Croatia. Serbs were once 22% and today are 4% in Croatia.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Prel1TPbo1I&feature=watch_response_rev



It is important to have in mind that Croatia is the boundary of the Vatican...



This pretty much sums it up:



http://www.youtube.com/user/mstreamm?feature=mhum#p/f/9/8C2_KHeaYgE



Edit:



This is the answer "offensiv" gave to a question about Serbs being in Croatia. As we can, see "offensiv" is full of blind hatred:



"Flippy is correct but I just wanted to add that Operation Storm did not expel the Serbs. They were given orders sent from Belgrade to evacuate as they had no desire to live in a free and independent Croatia,"



offensiv is either a teenager or a teenager in a body of an 38 year old idiot. I'll post this answer of his to my facebook.

Answer 7

Please read this book:

"Serbia's secret war" written by Philip Cohen.