is one of the countries that emerged from the break-up of Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia became a multicultural country after WW1. Yugoslavia was defeated by the Western Allies. During WW2‚ Yugoslavia was invaded by Nazi Germany and was divided. Tito was a communist. He was a strong leader who maintained ties with the Soviet Union and the United States during the Cold War. After Tito died in 1980 and without his strong leadership‚ Yugoslavia plunged into political and economic chaos. A new leader
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monarchy (Kingdom of Serbs‚ Croats and Slavs‚ later Kingdom of Yugoslavia) and a republic in a socialist country (Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia). Bosnia and Herzegovina finally became an independent country in 1990s. During the monarchy‚ Bosnia was primarily an agricultural region‚ rich with natural resources that had not been used. It remained underdeveloped and one of the poorest republics in Tito’s socialist Yugoslavia. As an independent country‚ Bosnia is currently struggling both
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considered as a benevolent dictator by many people including citizens of his own country and those of others. He was a relatively popular public figure both in Yugoslavia and abroad. Tito had internal policies which successfully deal with coexistence of the nations of the Yugoslav federation. The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (otherwise known as SFRY) was the Yugoslav state founded during World War II until it was dissolved in 1992‚ following the Yugoslav Wars. It was a socialist state
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Why did NATO attack Yugoslavia in 1999 and use air power‚ as it’s main means of Force? On the 24th March 1999 NATO initiated offensive military action against Yugoslavia.1 Air power was NATO’s only means of attack‚ meaning that no ground troops were to enter Yugoslavia and that all offensive missions were to occur with aircraft. The name given for this campaign was OPERATION ALLIED FORCE and has been quoted as “the most precise application of air power in history”2 This was a first of it’s kind
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between groups‚ making it difficult‚ if not nearly impossible to find a common denominator. A good example would be the civil war that occurred after the death of then Yugoslavian president Marshal Josip Tito. Upon Tito’s death in May of 1980‚ Yugoslavia was thrown into chaos as the different ethnic groups wanted their share of the proverbial pie. This led to the civil war between the Serbian‚
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Discuss and Analyze the similarities and differences between the genocide committed in Rwanda and Yugoslavia in the 1990s. The Rwandan and Bosnian Genocides were more similar than different due to the fact that both were supported by the governing force at the time‚ and both were ignited due to past tensions between two separate ethnicities. The Rwandan and Bosnian Genocides were similar in the fact that both were supported by the ruling force at the time. The Rwandan Genocide‚ was organized
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West Balkans where Yugoslavia might be an excellent example. It is a former federation of mainly Slavonic states in South- East Europe. The country was formed as the Kingdom of Serbs‚ Croats‚ and Slovenes after the First World War. It comprised Serbia‚ Montenegro‚ and the former South Slavonic provinces of the Austro-Hungarian empire and assumed the name of Yugoslavia in 1929. Its capital was Belgrade. Invaded by the
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genocide is often referred to as the hidden genocide‚ yet it had catastrophic effects on humanity. Over 100‚000 people were killed and it displaced millions of people. The genocide occurred between 1992 and 1995. The Social Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was made up of six nations under the leadership of Josip Broz Tito. Once Tito passed away in 1990‚ there was a power vacuum‚ and politicians began a nationalistic campaign pitting Serbs‚ Croats and Bosniaks against each other. Hence‚ the beginning
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Discuss” During post-war Europe both terror and repression were both elements that wore essential in establishing and maintaining communist regimes. Countries in Eastern Europe include Albania‚ Bulgaria‚ Czechoslovakia‚ Hungary‚ Poland‚ Romania and Yugoslavia. As World War II was ending both Russia and Germany had different views out what they expected the outcome to be. For theses Eastern –European countries their fate was already sealed. The Russians sought the area to be a ‘zone of satellites’ for
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citizens‚ or leaders are involved in the problem. A very good example of when we did help and it ended badly was what happened in Bosnia in 1992. Many different ethnic and religious groups lived together under a repressive communist government in Yugoslavia. In April 1992‚ Serbia set out to ethnically cleanse the Bosnian territory by removing all Bosnian Muslims‚ the Bosniaks‚ after the president Tito died in 1980. In 1993‚ The UN learned about this cleanse and made Sarajevo and many other places safe
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