Week 12- Former Yugoslavia

Question 1

Vlade Divac

Answer 1

• Basket ball player who sparked the conflict between Yugoslavia and its 6 republics after flag incident
• was Serb by ethnicity and Yugoslav by nationality

Question 2

Dražen Petrović

Answer 2

• was Croat by ethnicity and Yugoslav by nationality

- best friend of Divac until county tensions caused them to divide

Question 3

6 main religions and ethnicities of former Yugoslavia

Answer 3

1) Slovenes
2) Croatians
3) Serbians
4) Bosniaks
5) Macedonians
6) Albanians

Question 4

Slovenes

Answer 4

catholic and speak Slovenian

Question 5

Croatians and Bosnian Croats

Answer 5

catholic and speak “Serb-croatian”

Question 6

Serbians and Bosnian Serbs

Answer 6

orthodox christians and speak “Serb-Croatians”

Question 7

Bosniaks

Answer 7

Muslims and speak “Serb-croatian”

Question 8

Macedonians

Answer 8

Orthodox Christian and speak Macedonian

Question 9

Albanians

Answer 9

Muslim and speak Albanian

Question 10

relationship between serbs, Croats, and Slovenes AND Austro-Hungarian Empire

Answer 10

they formed out of the Austro-Hungarian Empire after WWI

Question 11

what does the name Yugoslavia actually mean

Answer 11

Southern slavs

Question 12

what was going on in Yugoslavia in WWII

Answer 12

• Nazi occupation

- civil war among Yugoslav groups

Question 13

what were the Yugoslav groups that were involved int he civil war

Answer 13

• Ustaše: Croat fascists
• Chetniks: Serb resistance fighters
• Communist “partisans” lead by Tito

Question 14

what happens to Yugoslavia after WWII

Answer 14

it becomes communist under Marshall Tito composed of the 6 groups

Question 15

plusses to communist Yugoslavia

Answer 15

• brotherhood and unity
• Relative Prosperity
• Freedom to travel
• Citizens supported regime
• Yugoslavia had global importance

Question 16

Minuses of communist Yugoslavia

Answer 16

• NOT a democracy
• “centralized versus regional” problem
• Conflict memory of WWII
• Problem of ethnic nationalism fwas never fully solved
• economic problems

Question 17

Communist leader Marshal Tito kept Yugoslavia unified from:

Answer 17

1945 until his death in 1980.

Question 18

Slobodan Milosevic

Answer 18

• serbian nationalist

- claimed he would help serb nation reclaim past grander

Question 19

Why did Yugoslavia not end up a liberal democracy like post-1989 Czechoslovakia?

Answer 19

• politicians capitalized on peoples’ worst fears

- and turned people against each other

Question 20

factors that lead to disintegration of Yugoslavia

Answer 20

1) Death of Tito leaves a power vacuum
2) Appeal of ethnic nationalist ideologies
3) Shortsighted politicians
4) Nationalists’ control of media
5) Ethnic/linguistic/religious diversity
6) Ethnic/linguistic/religious diversity
7) Economic inequalities between regions + economic decline of entire former Yugoslavia

Question 21

How did Yugoslavia disintegrate

Answer 21

1991: Slovenia and Croatia declare independance
1992: Macedonia declares indépendance and Bosnia war breaks out
1998: Kosovo war begins

Question 22

Sarajevo

Answer 22

• longest siege of any city in modern history: 1992- 1996

- Symbolic importance: center of civic/Yugoslav nationalism.

Question 23

what lead to NATO intervention in 1994

Answer 23

Markale Marketplace Massacre

Question 24

Srebrenica killings

Answer 24

• worst mass murder in European since WWII

- Bosnian Serbs massacre more than 7,000 Muslim boys and men in July 1995

Question 25

present day consequences of Yugoslav wars

Answer 25

• Former Bosnian Serb General was found guilty of war crimes and genocide and has been sentenced to life in prison
• Former Bosnian Serb President was found guilty in of “war crimes against humanity” and sentenced to 40 years imprisonment