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different from one another in more ways than one. If two Americans were compared today, it would be apparent that they are not entirely “American”, or “white” (Robbins), but there is no doubt that they had to go through similar processes to arrive and assimilate. Upon the discovery of the New World, the United States was introduced to a variety of ethnicities. Each immigrant group is definitive to its own culture and had its own influence on the New World and has an influence on the United States today. Not only did their appearance in America have an impact on the land and its people, but America and its people had a significant effect on them. Immigration into America was not tranquil on anyone, not even for Croatians. The Croatians, or Croats, are a group of people who are similarly related to Slovenians and Serbians, but are disconnected by means of history, language, and religion (Seligman). Croatian Americans are individuals who live in the United States, but are of Croatian decent. Their ancestors came from a country that now neighbors Slovenia, Hungary, and Bosnia. Most Croatians located themselves along the coast of the Adriatic Sea and were skillful seafarers. The Independent Republic of Dubrovnik would sea fare with other established places around the world. Upon the rule of the Austro-Hungarian Empire Monarchy is 1867, there were individuals who took sides with Hungary, Austria, and the liberated political administration of Starčevič and Kvaternik (History of…

Their effectiveness decreased over the period of the genocide due to internal Croat conflicts in 1993-1994 and an internal arms embargo (“Bosnian Conflict”). What ended up strengthening their forces was caused by the Croats and the Muslims agreeing to form a joint government. Once Milosevic cut military funding, the chances of their defeat increased. In 1994, the Serbs were forced to agree to participate in peace talks after they were not able to withstand combined NATO, Muslim and Croat attack…

When Croatia separated from Yugoslavia on June 25, 1991, while the Croats and Muslims supported the idea of independence, the Croatian Serbs were opposed to the decision. The Serbs, instead, wanted to combine with Serbia to create a greater Serbia. In order to complete this, they began an ethnic cleansing of Croatia. An ethnic cleansing is where an ethnicity is killed off. The Serbs attacked people who were of another ethnicity, such as the Croats and Muslims. However, many became refugees and…

For 86 days, they reduced the city to rubble, but that was not all. After the 86 days, they started mass executions of Croat men killing hundreds and put them in mass graves. In 1992 Milosevic in response to declaration of independence of Basina set up snipers in the city of Sarajevo to kill helpless civilians in the streets. 3500 children alone were killed in the city. Bosnian Muslims suffered the same conditions like the Jews during World War 2. The Serbs did mass shootings, forced…

Bosnian Muslims were viewed as being Croats. Eastern Orthodoxy was not tolerated by the Croatian State. Therefore, Serbs were limited in employment and land ownership. During World War II Serbs, Gypsies, and Jews were persecuted, murdered, or put into concentration camps due to their religion. Within a four-year period, a total of “750,000 Serbs, 60,000 Jews, and 26,000 Gypsies men women and children “were killed. Mandatory laws were passed for all Serbs to convert to Catholicism. Newly…

because Russia had nuclear missiles in Cuba and everybody was thinking about that. As the cold war was in the middle of the 45-year war, the genocide started to fade away. There is little known about this because nobody knew it happened until after and witnesses were supposedly not wanting to talk about it. Right after the Cold War ended and the 6 countries and 2 little-known provences were combined by the Paris Peace Confederacy (PPC) to create the country. In 1918, the kingdom of Yugoslavia…

The modernist perspective describes nationalism as a recent phenomenon that requires the structural conditions of modern society in order to exist. Instead of transforming communities of unity, how does ethnic nationalism accommodate to communities of fear? After World War II, Serbs and Croats lived together in their state Yugoslavia. The State was presided by a Croat named Tito, who did his best to reunite his people with what was called “Brotherhood and Unity”. The state flourished until he…

the beginning of the year 1993, The Bosnia Serb forces laid siege to Sarajevo, the Bosnia capital where the Bosnian Muslim government resided. By the end of the year 1993, they were controlling approximately 70% of Bosnia ("Breakup of Yugoslavia Leaves Slovenia Secure, Croatia Shaky - NYTimes.com"). The central areas of Bosnia have also experienced a heated exchange between the Muslim army and the Bosnian Croats as the latter wanted to remain in the greater Croatia. Despite efforts by the UN to…

there was not much that outsiders to the region could do to stop it. But this makes too much of history (especially the Serb defeat at the hands of the Turks in 1389), leaving the "web of animosity'' as an ill-fated but lasting fact of Balkan life. As Holbrooke sees it, "Yugoslavia's tragedy was not foreordained. It was the product of bad, even criminal, political and financial gain." Television even had a role to play in unleashing the ugly head of "violence-provoking nationalism." (ADD QUOTES…

the main information that I needed together in one place. At the beginning of my essay I found it hard to do, but later I knew how I want in to look like and what I want to say write. I wrote out a rough draft which was too short so I had to add more details about the event. ESSAY ! The word Genocide means killing or destroying members of an ethic group because of their race, nationality or religion. It is one of the worst crimes that people ever came across when thousands and millions of…