ethnic cleansing Flashcards
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ethnic cleansing
process where a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful group to create a ethnically homogenous region
ethnic cleansing primarily wher
europe and africa
larges t force migration
during WWII-jews, gypsies,etc where forced into concentration camps where they were exterminated
other postWWII ethnic cleansing in europe
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
yugoslavia ethnic cleansing
bosnia and herzegovinia
kosovo
balkan peninsula
complex assemblage of ethnicities
hot bed of unrest
yugoslavia has seven neighbors, six republics, five nationalities, 4 languages , 3 religions, 2 alphabets, and 1 dinar
yogoslavian saying
seven neighbors
3 democracies and 4 communist states
six re publics
bosnia and herzegovinia croatia macedonia montenegro serbia slovenia
five nationalities
five of the republics were named for the countrie’s 5 nationalities
croats macedonians montenegrrens serbs slovenes
fofur official languages
croatian
macedonian
serbian
slovene
3 major religions
roman catholic-north
orthodox-east
islam- south
2 alphabets
2 of languages were written in roman alphabet,
croatian an d slovene-roman alphabet
macedonian serbian - cryllic
1 dinar
national unit of currency
yugoslavia creation affect on ethnic groups
brought stability that lasted most of 20th century
old animosities were submerged and young people identified themselves as yugo lavs
when yugoslavia breaksup
old rivalries resurface and fights breakout over boundaries
ethnic cleansing in bosnia
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
bosnia solution
bosnia and herzegovina was seperated int o 3 regions each dominated by
serbs
croats
or muslims
ethnic cleansing in kosovo
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
balkanized
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
balkanization
process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities
balkination starts a war
WWI
how does balkinixation start WWI
various nationalities in balkans dragged larger powers into war
