the yugoslav wars were a series of conflicts fought in the former yugoslavia between 1991 and 2001. it was part of the revolutions of 1989 during the cold war. it all started back in 1918 after world war 1 when austria-hungary led by charles i of austria collapsed in 1918 when the austro-hungarian empire collapsed into austria, hungary,czechoslovakia,transylvania,romania,and yugoslavia in 1918 and following the 1941 nazi invasion of yugoslavia led by adolf hitler during world war 2 . in 1944 however, both tito and stalin pushed the nazis out of belgrade with the help of bulgaria. following the tito-stalin split from 1948-1953 when both josip broz tito and joseph stalin broke up their friendship together until stalin died in 1953 and following the warsaw pact invasion of czechoslovakia in 1968 romania,yugoslavia, and albania supported the czechoslovaks led by alexander dubček against the ussr led by leonid brezhnev. following the death of tito in 1980 yugoslavia started to collapse in 1991-1992 after tito’s death in 1980.