What nation broke up into many independent states After the fall of Berlin Wall?

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union. This led to a wave of independence movements across Eastern Europe and in the Balkans. Yugoslavia, a socialist federation of six republics, was one of the countries that broke up after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The country descended into a series of civil wars that lasted for several years and resulted in the creation of several independent states, including Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, Kosovo, and North Macedonia.