geography "Yugoslavia"

Question 0

Into how many republics was the nation of Yugoslavia organized following the adaption of the 1948 constitution?

Answer 0

Six

Question 1

What century do conflict over control of the land in Balkan start

Answer 1

6th century

Question 2

What was the result of Serbia’s attempted domination of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s

Answer 2

Some of Yugoslavia’s republic broke away

Question 3

What event occurred most recently

Answer 3

Kosovo declared independence

Question 4

Which ethnic group did Serbian leader Slobodan Milošević tote to to drive out of Kosovo?

Answer 4

The Albanians

Question 5

Serbian leader, who tried to increase Serbia’s power over the rest of Yugoslavia.

Answer 5

Slobodan Milošević

Question 6

people who migrated from Poland or Russia and settled in the Balkan Peninsula around 500.

Answer 6

South Slavs

Question 7

the policy of trying to eliminate an ethnic group through violence

Answer 7

Ethnic Cleansing

Question 8

a group that fought against Serbian attempts to control the region of Kosovo in the 1990s

Answer 8

KLA - (Kosovo Liberation Army)

Question 9

elected reform president elected by people in 2000

Answer 9

Vojislav Kostunica

Question 10

Where was the historic battle in which the Ottomans defeated the Serbs?

Answer 10

The historic battle in which the Ottoman defeated the Serbs was at Kosovo Polje.

Question 11

Which two republics suffered brutal wars after independence?

Answer 11

The two republics that suffered brutally was Slovenia and Bosnia.

Question 12

How did Tito try to overcome the differences among ethnic groups in Yugoslavia?

Answer 12

Tito encouraged them to think of themselves as Yugoslavs.

Question 13

What was the plan to create Greater Serbia?

Answer 13

The plan was that Serbia would expand its borders to include other territories with Serbian populations.

Question 14

How did the rest of the world get involved in the Balkan conflicts? Geographic

Answer 14

The rest of the world got involved by they created peace between Croatia and Bosnia.

Question 15

Was Milošević’s effort to make Serbia stronger successful? Give examples.

Answer 15

Milošević’s efforts to make Serbia stronger were successful, he used the nationalist appeal of the Kosovo issue and a national economic crisis to overcome the Stambolic faction; but he did choose very wrong decisions and ended up in prison with charges on war crimes.

Question 16

a series of foreign conquests increased what

Answer 16

diversity and contributed to ethnic tensions within the Balkans

Question 17

WWII intensified turmoil in Yugoslavia as a various ethnic group sided with whom

Answer 17

the Nazis or the Allies

Question 18

disagreement among ethnic groups over whether ___1____ and _____2______ should become independent led to war in 1992

Answer 18

1. Bosnia

2. Herzegovina

Question 19

different groups want control of what

Answer 19

The same land

Question 20

Serbia broke free from the Ottoman Empire; many Serbs wanted all the South Slavs to unite as one nation when

Answer 20

1878

Question 21

The desire of the Serbians wanting the South Slavs to be free of foreign rule and unite in one nation led to what

Answer 21

WWI

Question 22

Yugoslavia (named in 1929) means what

Answer 22

“Land of the South Slavs”

Question 23

Which 2 countries invaded Yugoslavia during WWI

Answer 23

Germany and Italy

Question 24

many Croats cooperated with the _____1_____; many ____2____ & _____3_____ massacred as a result

Answer 24

1. Nazis
2. Serbs
3. Jews

Question 25

Who became dictator of Yugoslavia after the war and remained so until his death in 1989

Answer 25

Josip Broz Tito

Question 26

under the leadership of who, Serbian looked to expand

Answer 26

Slobodan Milošević

Question 27

Who’s hatreds broke out into all-out war

Answer 27

Serb-Croats

Question 28

thousands were killed before the U.N. ceasefire was arranged when

Answer 28

1992

Question 29

Who used murder and violence to get rid of Bosnia’s Muslims and Croats

Answer 29

The Serbs

Question 30

they even tried for ethnic cleansing

Answer 30

more than 200,000 people died and over 2 million were refugees

Question 31

Milosevic died in prison in 2006, after being arrested and put on trial for war crimes

Answer 31

BYE FELICIA

Question 32

Who were 2 rival groups fighting the Nazis

Answer 32

Chetniks

Partisans

Question 33

What 6 republics were formed from the new 1946 constitution

Answer 33

Bosnia & Herzegovina 
Croatia 
Macedonia 
Montenegro 
Serbia 
Slovenia

Question 34

What were Serbia’s 2 self-governing provinces

Answer 34

Kosovo

Vojvodina

Question 35

What two republics were ethnically mixed and contained many Serbs

Answer 35

Croatia

Bosnia

Question 36

Which 2 republics declared their independence after Serbia blocked a Croat from becoming president in 1991

Answer 36

Slovenia

Croatia

Question 37

When did the US sponsor peace negotiations

Answer 37

1995

Question 38

What does NATO stand for

Answer 38

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Question 39

Who wanted independence from Serbia around the 2000s

Answer 39

Kosovars and Montenegrins

Question 40

Who refused to recognize Kosovo as a country after they declared their independence in 2008

Answer 40

Serbia