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Ethnic And Religious President Clinton
821 wordsAn atrocity is defined as "An act of cruelty and violence inflicted by an enemy-armed force upon civilians or prisoners. " Some believe this war in Kosovo is about politics. However, upon examination of the specifics of this conflict it is apparent that this is about religion. People must then decide whom, if anyone is committing these atrocities. Should the United States be involved in the dispute, and is it truly in the best interest of the American people? In the area once covered by the coun...
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Bosnia And Herzegovina Francis Ferdinand
305 wordsThe Archduke was chosen as a target because Serbians feared that after his ascension to the persecutions of Serbs living within the ASTRO-Hungarian Empire of Serbia had gained independence from the OTTEMAN Empire in 1878. At the time, Serbia laid claimed to several regions of Bosnia, which were primarily inhabited by Serbs. However, the congress of Berlin granted permission to Austria-Hungary to occupy Bosnia and Herzegovina, including, including the disputed Serbian areas. I 1908, Austria-Hunga...
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Slobodan Milosevic Human Rights
572 wordsAs John Locke believed, I too believe the right of revolution has but one meaning and that is; that the people in a society have the right to choose who will represent them in government. They have the right to elect another government or leader when the one originally in control is not doing what is in the peoples best interest. We call this right democracy. A recent example which best illustrates this is the election in Serbia where President Slobodan Milosevic has allegedly lost the election ...
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The Causes Of First World War
1,155 wordsIntroduction There are a lot of reasons for the outbreak of the First World War. In this project I will be explaining the causes of the first world with such topics in the Long term section such as Germany's defeat of France in the Franco - Prussian war, the development of the alliance system, naval rivalry, colonial rivalry and the rivalry of Russia and Austria in the Balkans. Also I will be explaining the short term causes which are The assassination at Sarajevo, Austria's determination to pun...
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Bosnia And Herzegovina Russia And Austria
1,080 words... ise of industrialism, countries needed new markets. The amount of lands 'owned' by Britain and France increased the rivalry with Germany who had entered the scramble to acquire colonies late and only had small areas of Africa. Nationalism: Nationalism means being a strong supporter of the rights and interests of one's country. The Congress of Vienna, held after Napoleon's exile to Elba, aimed to sort out problems in Europe. Delegates from Britain, Austria, Prussia and Russia (the winning all...
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Region Of Greece King Phillip 2 Macedonia
668 wordsTHE PROPAGANDA Macedonians should not be recognised as Macedonians as they have been of Greek nationality since 2000 BC. Macedonians whose language belongs to the Slavic family, must not call themselves Macedonians as 4000 years ago they spoke Greek and today still speak nothing but Greek. Macedonia has no right to call itself by this name as Macedonia has always been a region and is today a region of Greece. The Serbs believe that Macedonians are misguided country cousins who belong in a Greate...
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City Hall Ferdinand Allowed To Ride Archduke
828 wordsFrancis Ferdinand was born in Graz, Austria in 1863. His father is Archduke Charles Louis. He received the title archduke of Austria-Este in 1875. Francis became heir to the thrown after two deaths in the family. The first was the death of his cousin, Crown Prince Rudolf, who killed himself and his sixteen year old mistress in 1889, and the second was the death of his father in 1896. Ferdinand was a reformist with his new political ideas. As stated in the website The assassination of Archduke Fr...
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Austro Hungarian Empire First World War
2,097 words... the British in the North Sea. Germany and Austria also had military agreements. When the First World War was fought, it was to be fought by all powers because they had made the military plan cooperatively and very few people inside or outside government circles expected a long and destructive world war 13. As a result of the armaments race, all the European powers felt they were prepared for a war by 1914. There were two kinds of nationalism in 19 th Century Europe, the desire of subject peo...
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Causes Of World War I
2,165 words... to give military support to Austria. The Bosnian crisis had harmful consequences for the peace of Europe. Russia felt humiliated and was determined that this must not come again. Immediately after the crisis, the Russian government intensified her armaments program and sent Isvolsky as ambassador in Paris in order to get more support from France. The annexation of Bosnia Herzegovina also made Serbia the irreconcilable enemy of Austria. Without Bosnia Herzegovina, Serbia could never become a ...
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19 Th Century Power And Prestige
807 wordsNationalism in the Balkans helped contribute to the outbreak of WWI. Beginning in the late 19 th century, the social unrest in the Balkan States became the focal point of many European powers. The Balkan peninsula was that of great importance due to its territorial and economic significance; however, the Balkan States consisted of many proud ethnic cultures who did not wish to be ruled by any authority other than themselves. The unification of other countries and strong patriotism fueled the des...
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Make Good Neighbors False Sense Of Security
825 wordsWalls and Borders Do "good fences really make good neighbors?" (666) Robert Frost's poem Mending Wall examines this as a local issue. It can also be interpreted as a global issue. Frost writes about two neighbor farmers and how a wall between their property effects the relationship between the two. Taking a more global look at the issue, the conflict in the former Yugoslavia relates to Mending Wall. Perhaps "good fences" give people a false sense of security. Robert Frost's poem, Mending Wall, i...
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U S Troops Ground Forces
920 wordsMake this field active and press CTRL-V Sending US troops to Bosnia is in my opinion a very questionable activity. While I do see the presidents point, I do not see the need for ground forces. I think that several other options should be explored. Ground troops are not necessary to establish a presents in the region. I feel that airpower is sufficient, after all it was air strikes that brought the Serbs to the to the negotiation table in the first place. It is apparent that the only thing the Se...
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Things That Happen Sinai Peninsula
2,168 wordsGeopolitics is the relationship between the geography among nation states, and the state is an a territory with a sovereign body exercising predominantly within its geographic borders, and occasionally outside of them. Geopolitics can explain volatile relationships between a powerful core state and the states located at the periphery. The people occupying a region identify with the turf as being their land and these individuals or groups will go through great lightens to protect and defend their...
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World War Ii Hundreds Of Thousands
1,032 wordsWhat should the U. S. foreign policy be concerning military intervention in Kosovo? NATO, comprised mostly of United States Forces, has determined the moral and ethical solution is to intervene and prevent the annihilation of a race of innocent people. NATO decided to intervene after Serbian military actions caused deaths of over 1, 500 Kosovar Albanians and forced 400, 000 people from their homes (Nato's). The overwhelming consensus is that Milosevic is a modern day Hitler that must be stopped ...
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Slobodan Milosevic Ethnic Cleansing
1,480 wordsI wouldn t mind if they needed to take [Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic] out, said Chris Walter, 23, a college student living in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. I felt the same way about Saddam Hussein. I think the longer you keep the problem around, the sooner it is going to come back and bite you. From the Washington Post April 18 th, 1999 The horrors of the atrocities committed against Kosovo such as the targeted attacks on civilians, ethnic cleansing, and most certainly mass murder have a greater...
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Ethnic Albanians Ethnic Cleansing
1,747 wordsBackground of Kosovo Conflict Kosovo Background of Kosovo: -The Balkans have been a very unstable region for hundreds of years. The reason for contention is because of ethnic origin and disputes of which race owns which land... That is the reason for the dispute over Kosovo is because of the same thing. This is a very complicated situation, that I dont really know everything about. I just kind of know the basics. Back in the 1500 hundreds, the Serbs conquered the Kosovo area, slowly and graduall...
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Quot Quot Ethnic Albanians
1,766 wordsThe Balkans have been a very unstable region for hundreds of years. The reason for contention is because of ethnic origin and disputes of which race owns which land... That is the reason for the dispute over Kosovo is because of the same thing. This is a very complicated situation, that I dont really know everything about. I just kind of know the basics. Back in the 1500 hundreds, the Serbs conquered the Kosovo area, slowly and gradually over the years the Ethnic Albanians started occupying the ...
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Peacekeeping Force War Crimes
381 wordsWar crime suspects hunted after jailbreak MITROVICA, Kosovo Hundreds of NATO-led peacekeepers and U. N. police are searching for a group of Serb prisoners, many charged with war crimes, who escaped from a jail in the northern Kosovo city of Mitrovica. Roadblocks have been set up on roads leading to Serbia, while dogs are also being used to track the men through a wooded area near the jail. The provinces United Nations administration said the break-out took place on Saturday at around 9: 00 p. m....
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Slobodan Milosevic Mass Media
381 wordsMEDIA INFLUENCE The media play an important role in our lives and influence us in our choices and things we value in life. We definitely live in an information society, large groups of people receive information and store it. There are many opinions about the mass media of communications served as a vehicle for rational discussion featuring the range of political and cultural perspective. If communications controlled by an elite group, then the given information the people will be the only the e...
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Equal Height Artillery Fire City
728 wordsThe ride through the countryside was quite amazing. If you did not know, you would swear you were driving down a back road in Pennsylvania. The only visible difference were signs written in Cyrillic for little shops along the road. As the contours of Sarajevo came into focus, you could not miss the gaping, rubble-filled holes that were once buildings. I was not ready for the scenes of destruction that I was about to witness. I have hiked the hollow fields of Gettysburg, read stories of the war i...
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