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Balkan Conflict

Balkan Conflict. Vocabulary words you need to know!. What is an ethnic group? A group of people who share a common ancestry . This may be by religion, language, or race. What is ethnic cleansing? The mass expulsion and killing of an ethnic group by another ethnic group in an area.

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Balkan Conflict

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  1. Balkan Conflict

  2. Vocabulary words you need to know! • What is an ethnic group? • A group of people who share a common ancestry. • This may be by religion, language, or race. • What is ethnic cleansing? • The mass expulsion and killing of an ethnic group by another ethnic group in an area.

  3. History • After World War I, five ethnically distinct countries were brought together to form Yugoslavia. • Yugoslavia was a dictatorship controlled by a man name “Tito.” • He kept Yugoslavia together by stabilizing ethnic groups. • After his death, this country began to deteriorate. • Countries wanted their independence.

  4. Ethnic Groups

  5. Groups in war • Bosnian Muslims • Bosnian Serbs – Orthodox Christian • Croats – Roman Catholic • It was not just ethnic groups, but also ethnic and religious groups.

  6. The Conflict • Slovenia and Croatia declared independence. • This did not go over well. • This caused fighting to erupt. • Both Croatia and Bosnia-Hertzegovina had Serb populated provinces. • Ethnic cleansing took place to rid these places of non-Serbs. • They wanted to create pure nation states consisting of just one ethnic group.

  7. How did the conflict end? • The UN imposed economic sanctions on Bosnia. • They sent troops made up of Europeans. • They did not supply weapons to any player. • They wanted the US to get involved, but they had just come out of the Gulf War, and they felt it was Europe’s job to deal with it. • NATO began using air strikes. • This induced Serbia to seek an end to the war signing a peace agreement. • Economic sanctions were lifted. • Troops from the U.S. and Europe were sent in to establish peace.

  8. The Balkan Peninsula Today • Today the former Yugoslavia is split into Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo, Serbia, and Macedonia. • What’s it like today? • http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rough/2005/07/dark_shadows.html#

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