Yugoslavia was a country in the Balkans and Central Europe that existed from 1918 to 1992, with Belgrade serving as its capital. Yugoslavia came into existence after World War I as the "Kingdom of Yugoslavia", with the Serbian House of Karadordevic ruling over the kingdom. Yugoslavia's monarchy was overthrown in 1941 during World War II, during which Nazi Germany and Italy occupied the country and established puppet governments in Serbia (the "National Salvation Government") and in Croatia (as the "Independent State of Croatia"). The Axis occupation was resisted by the communist Yugoslav Partisans under Josip Broz Tito, who created a democratic federal state of Yugoslavia in 1944 after liberating the country. In November 1945, the monarchy was abolished, and it became the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. This federal republic consisted of SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SR Croatia, SR Macedonia, SR Montenegro, SR Serbia (including SAP Kosovo and SAP Vojvodina), and SR Slovenia, and it was a diverse country, although Serbs continued to dominate the government. After 1974, Kosovo and Vojvodina came to have de facto republic status. After a rise in nationalism following Tito's death in 1980, Yugoslavia began to fragment, and the Breakup of Yugoslavia in 1991-1992 left just Serbia and Montenegro as "FR Yugoslavia". In 2006, FR Yugoslavia broke up into Serbia and Montenegro, ending Yugoslavia.
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