From Ohio History Central The Dayton Peace Accords, negotiated
at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio in 1995,
paved the way toward ending years of ethnic warfare in Serbia,
Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Croatia. During the late 1980s and early
1990s, numerous communist countries experienced upheavals. The
United States had emerged from the Cold War victorious, and
people who had lived under communism for decades routinely rose
up and overthrew their communist governments. Struggles ensued
-- sometimes violent ones -- as different factions tried to gain
control of the new governments. This was the case for
Yugoslavia. In 1991, the communist government in this country
collapsed. Various ethnic factions warred against each other to
gain political power over their respective enemies. Yugoslavia
quickly dissolved into several new political regions, including
Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Croatia. For four years,
bloodshed occurred in these areas, as various groups tried to
gain control. Approximately 25