world war II Yugoslavia modern day Serbia was under the occupation of the Axis powers. While, under the German rule a group called Ustase came into power, the Ustase intended to create an ethnically "pure" Croatia, and viewed Serbians that followed the Eastern Orthodox church and Jews living in Croatia, and Bosnia as the biggest obstacles. Thus, started the Serbian Genocide, the Ustase coincided with German Holocaust as many Serbian were executed, expelled and converted to Catholicism. As a…
The discovery of the New World was not the first encounter of immigration, nor will immigration into the United States cease within the 21st century. The United States consists of a large group of individuals who are different from one another in more ways than one. If two Americans were compared today, it would be apparent that they are not entirely “American”, or “white” (Robbins), but there is no doubt that they had to go through similar processes to arrive and assimilate. Upon the discovery…
The Great War or First World War broke out on 28th July 1914. It took more than nine millions combatants and seven millions civilian’s lives. Many intellectuals of the time grieved over the catastrophe and expressed their views, trying to analyze the possible causes of such a great and unprecedented catastrophe. In Lenin’s words The war is a product of half a century of development of world capital and of its billons of threads and connections. It is impossible to escape from the imperialistic…
1. How did nationalism and militarism contribute to the tensions in Europe prior to 1914? Prior to 1914, nationalism became more popular among the ethnic groups who still wanted to achieve the goal of being an independent nation. However, it wasn’t just one or two ethnic groups, but several who had struggled for a long time in attempt to win their independence. As a result, the ethnic groups with their ideal of nationalism contributed to the increased tensions within Europe, but militarism…
The direct cause of World War 1 was the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and wife Sophie on June 28, 1914. The assassination was done by a Siberian Nationalist terrorist group. The first attempt failed earlier in the day. Gavrilo Princip later accomplishes the group's goal There were other causes building up behind the scenes. They all played a role in what happened in World War 1. I believe the root cause was national competition. Competition factored in heavily. Imperialism played a role…
Body:MILO Milošević was “the former president of Serbia and Yugoslavia”, “he was responsible for the politics that resulted in more than two hundred thousand dead.” It is hard for all of us to believe that a man so evil became president but it is not hard to realize why he was in that position in the first place. Milošević had legal-rational authority, that is what made him so powerful at the time. To me, the way Milošević obtained his authority characterizes him as a calculated oppurtunist who…
The rise of nationalism and antagonism in Serbian people felt that they had the right to a single country and feared that the other ethnic groups would exterminate them. When the fall of Yugoslavia happened, the Serbian politicians knew they needed to stir up fear and victimization to hide their real aim build a more significant Serbia. This aggressive Serbian nationalism broke the final thread that was holding Yugoslavia's nations in an arrangement. According to Vesna Pesci's report on Serbian…
In the 28th of June, 1914. Archduke Franz Ferdinand, next in line to the throne of Austria-Hungary was assassinated in Sarajevo. Bosnia-Herzegovina during a touring session, within the city by a Black Hand Assassin, Gavrilo Princip. Franz Ferdinand was an advocate of increased federalism and widely believed to favor tribalism, under which Austria-Hungary would be reorganized by combining the Slavic lands within the Austro-Hungarian empire into a third crown. Supportive of this idealism, the…
Intro: In this essay I am going to be talking about what caused war to happen. In general world one was a big impact that caused world war to happen what I mean by that is that the intense anger over the treaty of Versailles, Germany was angry because of their loses and they had to endure as a results of the treaty. Also the failure of the many peace efforts that occurred after World War One caused world war 2. The other thing that caused World War Two to happen was the rise of fascism, Fascism…
Throughout world history, very many different political scenes were altered, former Yugoslavia not being an exception. Yugoslavia was considered to be one of the most liberal communist regime, led by dictator Josip Broz Tito. He kept complete control over the various ethnic, religious, and nationalist groups under a great superpower, “greater Yugoslavia”. Soon after Tito’s death, politicians began imposing nationalistic regimes, which only pinned the Serbs, Croats, and the Bosnians against each…