Balkans

Introduction Kicevo, Macedonia is located in the Balkan Peninsula and is one of many divisions of what was former Yugoslavia. Neighboring countries include Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Serbia and Bulgaria. This portion of the world has seen great changes in geography and culture for thousands of years. It was once a part of the great Roman and Ottoman empires, experienced occupation by the Axis Powers during World War II and has been a hot bed for changing political ideals and civil wars. In 1993,…

extensive monarchy were guaranteed by ancient renown and disciplined valor. The gentle but powerful, influence of law and manners had gradually cemented the union of the provinces. The Mediterranean most of part like France, Spain, Belgium, Holland, the Balkan countries and parts like British rule and isles are under the rule of Roman Empire. Roman society has given more importance to the family because family is the necessary to survive. In roman society the oldest man of the family was…

Oral History Interview Project Oral history is the oldest type of historical inquiry, and one of the most modern. It is a field of study and a method of gathering, preserving, and interpreting the voices and memories of people, communities, and participants in past events. (Oral history association, 2012) So basically there is an interviewer asking an interviewee about his experiences in his life, and the interview can serve for many purposes. For this project, the interview was for us to see…

With the fall of the Berlin Wall, the forty five year long Cold War between America and the Soviet Union had ended. This pivotal event was a bellwether for change throughout the globe, with communist states falling like dominoes and ushering in a new era of the exceptional, indispensable US’ unipolar hegemony characterized by stability, the proliferation of interconnected market economies, and the spread of democracy -- all leading to eternal peace among nations. At least, that is what many of…

The executive arm of the government under the President wields more power as compared to the Congress. The feeling that power should be shared 50-50 between the Presidency and the Congress is a fallacy. Foreign policy involves various players, the executive arm, and the Congress being the major policy contributors (Hastedt 169).However, the Presidency has several key arms that provide a superior advantage. Considering that the Presidency is established on a purely political process, the Congress…

sailed overseas with his father and older brother to work at the American embassy in London, where his father was President Franklin D. Roosevelt's U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. In 1939, Kennedy toured Europe, the Soviet Union, the Balkans, and the Middle East in preparation for his Harvard senior honors thesis. He then went to Czechoslovakia and Germany before heading out to London on September 1, 1939; that was the day Germany invaded Poland. A couple of days later, the Kennedy…

and the Ottoman Empire seemed somewhat farcical at the time of the war. The Ottoman Empire was a failing state, the “sick man of Europe.” They had been losing power in the middle east and their economy was in disrepair, due to repeated wars in the Balkans before their alliance. They could only benefit from a win in this war, and that would bring them into modernizing their empire and have potential growth. However, they were a pathway to British colonies and had ports to the mediterranean and…

Throughout the long history of world we have quite seen the leader types, some soft some rigid, dictators especially, Stalin, Hitler, Garibaldi, who are known for massive deaths, and severely strict rules in their country. Dictator, a leader who gives orders and behaves as if they have complete power (dictionary.cambridge.org). Dictatorship, form of government in which one person or a small group possesses absolute power without effective constitutional limitations, a temporary magistrate who…

The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth once was a large kingdom. Its political problems began in 1654-1667 when Bogdon Chelmenytsky, a Cossack, pledged to Russia, devastated the kingdom. Just prior to its division among Russia, Prussia, and Austria, Poland's Jewish population reached 430,000 (excluding Eastern Galicia). In Lithuania, there were 157,300 Jews. History of the Jewish People. The economic breakdown in the Commonwealth in the second half of the 17th century has often been seen as a…

Soviet Union. Each country had their own ideologies about how to rebuild Europe after the war. President Truman and the Russians leader Joseph Stalin were in disagreement on how to divide postwar Europe. The Soviets controlled Poland and most of the Balkans while the American and British forces had liberated Western Europe from Scandinavia to Italy. The Russians were concerned about past invasions and were intent on imposing communist governments loyal to Moscow. The United States believed in…