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1
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Vlade Divac

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  • Basket ball player who sparked the conflict between Yugoslavia and its 6 republics after flag incident
  • was Serb by ethnicity and Yugoslav by nationality
2
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Dražen Petrović

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  • was Croat by ethnicity and Yugoslav by nationality

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

3
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6 main religions and ethnicities of former Yugoslavia

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

4
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Slovenes

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catholic and speak Slovenian

5
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Croatians and Bosnian Croats

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catholic and speak “Serb-croatian”

6
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Serbians and Bosnian Serbs

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orthodox christians and speak “Serb-Croatians”

7
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Bosniaks

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Muslims and speak “Serb-croatian”

8
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Macedonians

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Orthodox Christian and speak Macedonian

9
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Albanians

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Muslim and speak Albanian

10
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relationship between serbs, Croats, and Slovenes AND Austro-Hungarian Empire

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they formed out of the Austro-Hungarian Empire after WWI

11
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what does the name Yugoslavia actually mean

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Southern slavs

12
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what was going on in Yugoslavia in WWII

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  • Nazi occupation

- civil war among Yugoslav groups

13
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what were the Yugoslav groups that were involved int he civil war

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  • Ustaše: Croat fascists
  • Chetniks: Serb resistance fighters
  • Communist “partisans” lead by Tito
14
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what happens to Yugoslavia after WWII

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it becomes communist under Marshall Tito composed of the 6 groups

15
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plusses to communist Yugoslavia

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  • brotherhood and unity
  • Relative Prosperity
  • Freedom to travel
  • Citizens supported regime
  • Yugoslavia had global importance
16
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Minuses of communist Yugoslavia

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  • NOT a democracy
  • “centralized versus regional” problem
  • Conflict memory of WWII
  • Problem of ethnic nationalism fwas never fully solved
  • economic problems
17
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Communist leader Marshal Tito kept Yugoslavia unified from:

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1945 until his death in 1980.

18
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Slobodan Milosevic

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  • serbian nationalist

- claimed he would help serb nation reclaim past grander

19
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Why did Yugoslavia not end up a liberal democracy like post-1989 Czechoslovakia?

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  • politicians capitalized on peoples’ worst fears

- and turned people against each other

20
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factors that lead to disintegration of Yugoslavia

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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

21
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How did Yugoslavia disintegrate

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

22
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Sarajevo

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

- Symbolic importance: center of civic/Yugoslav nationalism.

23
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what lead to NATO intervention in 1994

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Markale Marketplace Massacre

24
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Srebrenica killings

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  • worst mass murder in European since WWII

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

25
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present day consequences of Yugoslav wars

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  • 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