 Nyorai kuenderera mberi kweiyi ndima - Pakupera kwehondo, maPartizans, akatungamirwa naJosip Broz Tito, vakabuda vakunda. Yugoslavia yakazova nyika yechiKomonisiti. Tito akafa muna 1980, uye rufu rwake rwakaita kuti Yugoslavia ipinde mumatambudziko ezveupfumi. Yugoslavia yakaparara mukuvamba kwama 1990, uye nhevedzano yehondo yakaguma nokugadzirwa kwenyika itsva shanu. Kurwisana kwakakomba zvikuru kwakaitika muCroatia, Bosnia neHerzegovina, umo vagari vechiSerb vakapandukira ndokuzivisa rusununguko. Hondo muCroatia yakaguma muna August 1995, nechiuto cheCroatia chakazivikanwa seOperation Storm chakapwanya kupandukira kweCroatian Serb uye chakakonzera maSerb anosvika mazana maviri ezviuru kutiza nyika. Hondo yeBosnia yakaguma gore iroro, neChibvumirano cheDayton chakakamura nyika maererano nemadzinza. Muna 199899, kunetsana muKosovo pakati peuto reYugoslavia nevaAlbania vaitsvaka kuzvimiririra kwakaputika kuva hondo yakazara, zvichiguma nehondo yebhomba yeNATO yemazuva 78iro rakabudirira kudzinga masimba okuchengetedzwa kweYugoslav kubva kuKosovo. Pashure pacho, vaSerbia vanopfuura 200 000 nevamwe vakanga vasiri vaAlbania vakatiza muruwa rwacho. Musi wa 5 Gumiguru 2000, Mutungamiri weYugoslavia Slobodan Milosević akadonhedzwa mukumukira kusina ropa mushure mekunge aramba kubvuma kukundwa musarudzo huru yeYugoslavia ya2000. 