Claire Willmschen & Isabella Gonzalez

Activity 1
A. History of Hatred
1.1 Religion divides the Serbs and the Croats
1.2 Serbs are Eastern Orthodox and the Croats are Roman Catholic
1.3 The division of the Roman Empire into the Eastern Empire in Constantinople and the
Western Empire
1.4 The Ottoman Turks introduced Islam to the region with their rise in power
1.5 They beat them in the 14th Century
1.6 Austro-Hungarian Empire
1.7 Serbia
1.8 The Nazis invaded and set up a fascist Croatian state that committed atrocities against the
Serbs killing thousands.
B. The Pre- Breakup Situation
1.9 Slovenia
1.10 Bosnia
1.11 Multination State
1.12 Provinces
1.13 Communist
C. The Breakup
1.14 Irredentism
1.15 Secession
1.16 Serbia population in Slovenia was small and not incorporated into the idea of a Greater
Serbia so the government let it go
1.17 yes it is entirely Slovenian
1.18 Serbs and Croats

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D. Bosnia
1.19 Muslims
1.20 Serbs and Croats
1.21 Serbs and Croats were both irredenta
1.22 states
1.23 The refugees would not be able to return to their homes that were now occupied by other
ethnic groups
1.24 Killing people through aggression and genocide is an okay way to achieve goals.
1.25 The Republic Srpska had a weak economic and political status. Also the dividing line is
impractical and zig-zagged so the Republic Srpska had nowhere to secede into
E. Kosovo and Ethnic Cleansing
1.26 Yugoslavia
1.27 Albanians and Serbs
1.28 Albanians
1.29 Albanian citizens
1.30 The aim of ethnic cleansing is to change the ethnic composition of a given region and to
create a sense of unity