The Death of Yugoslavia plot
After the death of Josip Tito, rising nationalism takes hold of Yugoslavia. This is compounded after Slobodan Milošević takes power in Serbia and turns against the Kosovar Albanians. In April 1990 Croatia holds its first free parliamentary elections. Ethnic Serbs in Croatia feel threatened by the nationalist tone of Croatia's newly elected president Franjo Tuđman, and they start a revolution in August. In May 1991 Croatia holds an independence referendum, which is approved by a large majority. This results in the Battle of Vukovar. The beginning of the war.