1900 Balkan Peninsular was under control of Ottoman Empire for 500 years. Kosovo and Yugoslavia did not exist.

1878 ==Berlin Congress== - background - aim - consequence - impact on local people: emerge of nationalism, found ==League of Prizen==

750,000 Albanians lived in that region and was deeply integrated into the empire (army and commercial enterprise)

1912-13 The Balkan Wars - First Balkan War in 1912: Balkan states(Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece, and Montenegro) VS Ottoman Empire - 1913 sign of Treaty of London, removed most territory of Ottoman Empire in Europe, including Albania and Macedonia - 1913 Albania gained sovereignty - Second Balkan War in 1913, between Greece+Serbia VS Bulgaria - Significance: introduce an age of modern warfare that continued to the end of the century

1914 Bosnian Serb Gavrilo Princip assassinated Austro-Hungarian throne Franz Ferdinand, triggered the WWI

1929 Yugoslavia was created, consisting countries of … Kosovo was given to Serbia, despite its major population of Albanian

significance: Yugoslavia was highly unstable, challenges include economic underdevelopment, ethnic tensions, and weak institutions. The stress is accumulative, which created the opportunity for dictatorship or monarchy. Kings and dictators rotated in some countries.

1941 WWII, Yugoslovia surrendered to Germany. Resistance force were mainly: royalist and heavily pro-Serbian Chetniks led by Draža Mihailovic; partisans by Josip Broz Tito.

1944 Allies switched support from Mihailovic to Tito. Mihailovic was captured by partisans and executed in 1946.