Yugoslavia

The First World War was a calamity, but what was done in the wake of it, and the world it created, set the stage for even worse events. The post war world teetered on a precarious balance in both Europe and Asia. The nationalism that caused the First World War, manifested itself after the war and threatened post war security. Post- war Europe and Asia were fractured because of issues stemming from the First World War and combined with nascent and growing nationalism. Europe bore the brunt of…

avoid mass persecutions, wars, and genocides. One of the most widespread and recent persecutions occurred about 20 years ago in the Yugoslavic region. In 1991, the country of Yugoslavia began to break up between the different ethnicities. When the republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina declared independence in 1992from Yugoslavia, war immediately sprang into action. The Serbians targeted Bosniaks – a Bosnian Muslim ethnic group – and Croatian civilians in a campaign of ethnic cleansing, similar to…

state. A hyperinflation period was present mostly in the twentieth century in countries such as Yugoslavia, Germany, and Zimbabwe. These rough periods were mostly caused by times of war and rash decision making by government officials. During the twentieth century there were many political changes happening across the world. From the effects left on Germany from World War I, to the breaking up of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s and to the gloomy period in the Zimbabwe economy in the late 1990s,…

Sitting here delayed at Tulsa International Airport, and I think to myself how this wedding came to be. J.P. was stationed at Ram stein Air Force Base in Germany when my mom had a heart attack. He wanted to be here for her so bad, but the military would not let come home. He was told he would have to change his field of work in order to get shipped back to the United States. He put in for a job transfer from a Bio-Tech (Bio-Environmental Engineer), someone who checks the purity and cleanliness…

Slobodan Milošević was raised in the Axis regime of The Kingdom of Yugoslavia. While he was growing up his parents divorced and his father committed suicide shortly after. This lead his mother and brother to join the communist party like his uncle. His uncle and mother both killed themselves within a couple of years of each other. Giving him a loose grasp on death since it came so easily to him. After graduating college he went on to move up in ranks in both the Communist party and the nation's…

During NATO’s attacks on Yugoslavia, dubbed Operation Allied Force, the Chinese embassy in Belgrade was bombed. NATO’s attacks were air attacks targeting important Yugoslavian buildings in order to pressure Slobodan Milosevic to withdraw his Serbian forces from Kosovo. The Chinese embassy was not one of the locations that NATO intended on bombing. Regardless, according to Source B, the attacks “...killed three Chinese journalist and rendered the embassy building unusable…” and “...more than 20…

There have been several movies made about this time; they always feature three things. Communism, nuclear fallout, and high tensions are the three things that are always in movies. This is the Cold War and the place is the infamous Communist Bloc. The Communist Bloc is a collection of Eastern European countries that were either “persuaded” or simply influenced by the Communist Soviet Union. The Communist Bloc was all because of what happened in World War II. What happened in World War II was the…

Tokyo Tribunal The International Tribunal for the Far East (Tokyo Tribunal), on the other hand, did convict Japanese war criminals on charges of rape. However, it stopped short of considering the military sexual slavery of comfort women . In the case before the Tokyo Tribunal , General Matsui Iwane was indicted for charges that included “mass murder, rape, pillage…”, as he had been the commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Forces, and was commander of Japan’s Central China Expeditionary Force.…

After having so much confidence going into the war the KKE was shocked to see the power of the Greece Government. The KKE received help from The Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, and Albania. The KKE was able to use this help to set up camps and strongholds along the Bulgarian and Albanian borders. From these borders, the KKE would use guerilla tactics to attack and weaken the Greek Army. They would run out of…

Imagine yourself in a situation where there is no hope. Thinking if you will ever survive and live peacefully in a place where a massacre occurred after the Holocaust. A massacre where thousands of people died because of rape, sexual violence, and force displacement. A massacre that could have been avoided if the Serbian leader didn’t take advantage of the nationalist’s feelings. A massacre where its people wanted to be independent and break apart with its country due to religious reasons.…