The former countries of Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia broke apart in the 1990s through different processes. Czechoslovakia split through a legislative decision agreed upon by both countries, while Yugoslavia experienced extended fighting and ethnic conflicts among its diverse communities and weak central government. The division of Czechoslovakia was peaceful and finished within months, while the breakup of Yugoslavia involved ethnic cleansing, concentration camps, and conflict that lasted for years.

1. The Great Divide
What happened to the former
Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia

3. •Break-up of the state
was tolerated
•People were
regretful
•Legislative decision
agreed upon by both
countries
Czechoslovakia Yugoslavia
•Extended fighting
•Diverse community
•Weak center with
strong republics
•Religious and ethnic
conflicts
Split during
the 1990’s
Included a
series of
republics

5. •Systematic division of
military and state
land
•Finished within a
few months
Czechoslovakia Yugoslavia
•Ethnic cleansing
•Concentration camps
•Lasted years
National-
federal
structure
Each separate
country has
applied or
already become
a member of
the EU

7. The Great Divide
What happened to the former
Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia

8. Sources
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/141-the-
violent-dissolution-yugoslavia-comparative-
perspective
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/map/yugoslavi
a/
http://www.okno.com/ewltr/archive/vol1/cz-divorce-
v1n4.pdf