ethnic cleansing

Question 1

ethnic cleansing

Answer 1

process where a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful group to create a ethnically homogenous region

Question 2

ethnic cleansing primarily wher

Answer 2

europe and africa

Question 3

larges t force migration

Answer 3

during WWII-jews, gypsies,etc where forced into concentration camps where they were exterminated

Question 4

other postWWII ethnic cleansing in europe

Answer 4

germans, poles, russians forced to move b/c of boundary changes.

when part of germany became part of poland, germans were forced to move west

Question 5

yugoslavia ethnic cleansing

Answer 5

bosnia and herzegovinia

kosovo

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balkan peninsula

Answer 6

complex assemblage of ethnicities

hot bed of unrest

Question 7

yugoslavia has seven neighbors, six republics, five nationalities, 4 languages , 3 religions, 2 alphabets, and 1 dinar

Answer 7

yogoslavian saying

Question 8

seven neighbors

Answer 8

3 democracies and 4 communist states

Question 9

six re publics

Answer 9

bosnia and herzegovinia
croatia
macedonia
montenegro
serbia
slovenia

Question 10

five nationalities

Answer 10

five of the republics were named for the countrie’s 5 nationalities

croats
macedonians
montenegrrens
serbs
slovenes

Question 11

fofur official languages

Answer 11

croatian
macedonian
serbian
slovene

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3 major religions

Answer 12

roman catholic-north
orthodox-east
islam- south

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2 alphabets

Answer 13

2 of languages were written in roman alphabet,

croatian an d slovene-roman alphabet
macedonian serbian - cryllic

Question 14

1 dinar

Answer 14

national unit of currency

Question 15

yugoslavia creation affect on ethnic groups

Answer 15

brought stability that lasted most of 20th century

old animosities were submerged and young people identified themselves as yugo lavs

Question 16

when yugoslavia breaksup

Answer 16

old rivalries resurface and fights breakout over boundaries

Question 17

ethnic cleansing in bosnia

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serb sand croats fought to break away from bosnia and herzegovinia and rejoin serbia and croatia.

they tried to ethnic clease out bosnian muslims so areas were ethnically homogenous and therefore, better candidates for union with serbia and croatia

Question 18

bosnia solution

Answer 18

bosnia and herzegovina was seperated int o 3 regions each dominated by

serbs
croats
or muslims

Question 19

ethnic cleansing in kosovo

Answer 19

with the breakup of yugoslavia, serbia took control of kosovo and launched campaign of ethnic cleansing of albanian minority forcing ethnic albanian residents to camps in albania.

USA and western europe launched an air atack and ended whe nseerbia agreed to withdraw from kosovo.

2008 kosovo declare independence but serbia and russia opposes kosovo being an independent country

Question 20

balkanized

Answer 20

describes a small geographic area that can not successflly organize into one or more stable states because it was inhabited by many ethnicities wiith antagisms to each other

Question 21

balkanization

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process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities

Question 22

balkination starts a war

Answer 22

WWI

Question 23

how does balkinixation start WWI

Answer 23

various nationalities in balkans dragged larger powers into war