AP Human Geography Chapter 7 Key Issue #4 – Flashcards
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Ethnic cleansing is not done to
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defeat an enemy but to rid an area of an entire ethnicity so that the surviving group can be the sole inhabitants
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Ethnic cleansing involves
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the removal of every woman, man, child young and old
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In 1878 Austria and Hungary controlled
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Bosnia and Herzegovina where the majority of people had converted to Islam by the Ottoman Turks
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In June 1914 the heir to the throne of Austrian Hungary was
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assassinated by the Serb who sought independence for Bosnia began WWI
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After WWI Allies created
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a new country Yugoslavia to unite several Balkan ethnicities that spoke similar languages including Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Macedonians, Montenegrens
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Yugo means
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south in slavic
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Under leadership of Josip Tito Yugoslavs often said
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"Yugoslavia has 7 neighborhoods, 6 republics, 5 nationalities 4 languages, 3 religions, 2 alphabets and 1 dinar
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After Tito's death rivalries began to surface leading to the breakup of the country
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formed independent countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Slovenia and montenegro
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When Yugoslavia broke apart, Bosnian Muslim was considered
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an ethnicity rather than nationality.
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Rather than live in a multi-ethnic state with a Muslim plurality the serbs and croats living there
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fought to unite the portions that they lived in with Serbia and Croatia
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To strengthen Serbs and Croatians case for breaking away,
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they engaged in an ethnic cleansing of Muslims
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Accords in Ohio in 1996 divided B and H into
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3 region each one dominated by the croats muslims and serbs.
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After breakup of Y. Serbia took control of Kosovo and began ethnic cleansing of the Albanian majority
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They forced 750,000 of 2 million Albanians out before US and NATO launched attacks against Serbia
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Bombing ended when
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Serbia agreed to withdraw soldiers and police from Kosovo
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The Tutsi took control of Rwanda 400 years ago and turned the Hutu
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into their serfs( even though they were only 15% of the pop)
