ethnic cleansing Flashcards

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ethnic cleansing

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

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ethnic cleansing primarily wher

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europe and africa

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larges t force migration

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

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other postWWII ethnic cleansing in europe

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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

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yugoslavia ethnic cleansing

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bosnia and herzegovinia

kosovo

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balkan peninsula

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complex assemblage of ethnicities

hot bed of unrest

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

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yogoslavian saying

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seven neighbors

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3 democracies and 4 communist states

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six re publics

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bosnia and herzegovinia
croatia
macedonia
montenegro
serbia
slovenia
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five nationalities

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

croats
macedonians
montenegrrens
serbs
slovenes
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fofur official languages

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croatian
macedonian
serbian
slovene

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3 major religions

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roman catholic-north
orthodox-east
islam- south

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2 alphabets

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2 of languages were written in roman alphabet,

croatian an d slovene-roman alphabet
macedonian serbian - cryllic

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1 dinar

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national unit of currency

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yugoslavia creation affect on ethnic groups

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brought stability that lasted most of 20th century

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

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when yugoslavia breaksup

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old rivalries resurface and fights breakout over boundaries

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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

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bosnia solution

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

serbs
croats
or muslims

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ethnic cleansing in kosovo

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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

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balkanized

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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

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balkanization

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

22
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balkination starts a war

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WWI

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how does balkinixation start WWI

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various nationalities in balkans dragged larger powers into war