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Ultranationalism is defined as an extreme form of nationalism in which it promotes the interest of one state or people above all others. Ultranationalism is the root or cause of genocide to a large extent because it is often that leaders who have caused genocide develop feelings of ethnocentrism, which is a feeling that describes one who holds their ethnicity superior to others. This leads to thinking of other nations as inferior. When this happens, leaders who have feelings of ultranationalism…

led to the start of a war between many major powers of the world. This “spark” is commonly known as the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Ferdinand was the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne and was murdered by Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb citizen of Austria-Hungary and member of the Black Hand movement, a group considered by many as terrorists that were responsible for the start of the war. The reason why it was so dangerous in the years before WWI was because of the fact that…

three communities living in Bosnia. But it would be wrong to suggest that it is only the unaddressed grievances that are the direct cause of the violence that erupts in the last pages of the book, when the massacre of Bosnian Muslims by the Bosnia Serbs takes place in the town of Srebrenica in eastern…

The man who wrote the letter you are about to read will not show up in your textbooks. His name was Guy Goff and this was one of many letters he wrote to his wife during World War 1, this one specifically was written while he was stationed in France during the Paris Peace Conference to end World War 1. He wasn’t a politician and he wasn’t a diplomat, he was an assistant to those involved in the peace talks and got a front row seat to all of the political drama. Goff gives historians a…

Following the end of the Second World War, Marshall Tito, former leader of the Partisans, lead the ethnically diverse, if not artificial, state of Yugoslavia into a new age of optimism that lasted for three decades. Unfortunately, this age ended with his death. His death, along with the fall of the Soviet Union a decade later, left the fate of Yugoslavia, and its many peoples, uncertain. Following the fall of the Soviet Union and its satellites in 1989, a feeling of uncertainty tainted the air…

Question #1- What was the Holocaust mostly about? Answer #1- The Holocaust was a terrible event in human history. A man named Adolf Hitler hated Jewish people, and decided to make a protest against all Jewish individuals. Hitler hated Jewish people because of multiple unthinkable reasons. For one Hitler blamed the Jews for losing World War I, therefore he considered jews to be less human. He wanted to make a race of “perfect people”. Hitler believed superiority Aryan race. He wanted to use…

search for revenge. Many nations were motivated by nationalistic pride to join the war, such as France that joined because they wanted to gain back their territory in Alsace-Lorraine. Nationalism was the main cause of the Balkan crisis because the Serbs in the Balkan Peninsula didn 't want to be colonized by anyone. The sign of national pride became a big problem for the Austro-Hungarian Empire while they attempted to…

The tension between the Serbs and Muslims spanning centuries in the past is what provoked the idea of an “ethically cleansed” state. After the death of Tito, propaganda used in an attempt to promote political campaigns caused each division of people, the Muslims and Serbians, to…

given to the Austro-Hungarian Empire from the Ottoman Empire, annexed in 1908, while other countries such as Serbia gained their independence. Serbia wanted to combine with Bosnia in order to form Greater Serbia because Bosnia’s population consisted of Serb ethnicity (Bodden 16). In fact, Serbia posed a great threat to the Austro-Hungarian Empire rule over Bosnia, because Serbia provided Bosnia a reason to want to revolt against the Empire. Serbian nationalist planned an attack with the help of …

World War I started on July 28, 1914 through November 11, 1918. It was an intentional conflict that was brought on by 10 key factors. As you continue along, you will see how each one of these helped to create a hostile environment which festered until war was inevitable. As you continue reading you will learn about what started the war, what happened during the war, and what was the result of the end of the war. The first issue that contributed to World War I was the French and Prussian War…