Sarajevo

summer Olympics games held in Moscow, Russia’s capitol. The situation with the Soviet Union in Afghanistan made President Jimmy Carter worried about the safety of American athletes in Moscow (United States). The 1984 winter Olympics were held in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia with the United States in 3rd place with only 8 total medals. Reacting to the US boycott in 1980, the Soviet Union boycotted the Los Angeles Olympics held in the US in the summer of 1984. Even with 14 countries boycotted against the…

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…

Ferdinand and Wife Sophia The day started off with Franz visiting Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia and Herzegovnia, to view the Austro-Hungarian troops located there. The day this all took place was June 28, 1914. Also in the capital at the same time was a Serbian terrorist group known as the “The Black Hand”. The Black Hand consisted of seven men who initially planned to assassinate Franz by practicing techniques such as bomb throwing and shooting techniques which would be used on this day. The…

crippling Ottoman Empire who were on the verge of collapse, able to start a war that would change history forever? On June 28, 1914, Gavrilo Princip, a Serbian Nationalist assassinated Franz Ferdinand, archduke of the Austria-Hungarian Empire, in Sarajevo, Bosnia. There were two major groups in Europe – on one side was the Triple Alliance consisting of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy while their enemy was the triple Entente made of France, Russia and Great Britain. World War I is considered…

extremely overpowering sound, and not a great one at that. I'm inclined to think it was a trumpet due to the in general “blat” or blaring of the noise, and the distortion it receives when playing at higher volumes. The symphony also played a piece called sarajevo, which was an excellent song, and a good example of blend and balance, especially between low and high voices eg. trombones and…

Document I highlights the assassination of Austria’s archduke as the main instigation for war. This is done by portraying Sarajevo as a match that would set fire to a pile of logs. In turn, the logs are a symbol of the less immediate causes of war such as alliances, imperialism and militarism. Document F strengthens Document I’s stance on the relationship between nationalistic…

The eldest child of refugee Sarajevo immigrants, I learned my dedicated, caring, yet practical parents would never have nine to five jobs. Fortunately, in true Albanian fashion, my grandparents have always lived in our home, imparting wisdom I have come to appreciate. As so often happens in families of this nature, as a youngster I started working in my father’s general practioner’s office, assuming I too would eventually study medicine. It is from the nursing staff that I realized what my…

Then it happened what sparked the start of the war in June, 1914 , the Archduke Francis Ferdinand , visited Sarajevo. There seven assassins were sent by the Serbian nationalist group, the Black Hand, to kill the Archduke. The Black Hands idea was the have all the serb people to be in one nation and haveAustria-Hungary out of the picture. So on the morning of June…

the uncontrolled manner of fighting. The war is largely considered to be caused, or more accurately “sparked”. by the actions of Gavrilo Princip took on Sunday, 28 June 1914, at approximately 10:45 am. Franz Ferdinand and his wife were killed in Sarajevo, the capital of the Austro-Hungarian. The killer was a member of the Black Hand. a terrorist/secret society in Serbia. The Central powers of Germany, the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, and the Ottoman Empire went up against the Allied powers. The…

accounts of Francis Ferdinand. In the confession, the leader of the Narodna Odbrana, a Serbian Nationalist Group, told all about what it took to kill Ferdinand. In June 28, 1914, the Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand visited the capital of Bosnia Sarajevo. Conspirators of Narodna Odbrana were placed in strategic places throughout the city. The conspirators took shots at him in the city, even throwing a grenade at his moving car. They scared him out of the city, and into the countryside. There…