Chapter 7 Key Issues – Flashcards
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How is ethnic cleansing different than normal warfare?
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because it involves the removal of every member of the less powerful ethnicity. Usually happens within the same state
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When boundaries were redrawn in Europe after WW2, what was the effect on various ethnic groups?
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People were forced to migrate. East Germany became a part of Poland and the Germans were forced out.
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List the countries of the Balkan pennisula
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Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania
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Describe the creation of Yugoslavia after WW1
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Allies created a new country to unite several Balkan ethnicities that spoke similar south Slavic languages
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Yugoslavia's 5 Nationalities
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Croats, Maledonians, Montenegrens, Serbs, Slovenes
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Yugoslavia's 4 languages
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Croatian, Maledonian, Serbian, Slovene
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Yugoslavia's 3 Religions
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Roman Catholic in the North, Orthodox in the East, Islam in the South
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What ethno-political problems did the country face after the death of Tito in the 1980s and fall of communism in the 1990s?
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it lead to the break up of the country and led to different republics and 5 separate countries
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Why did the Serbs and Croats in Bosnia ethnically cleanse the country of Bosnian Muslims
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to ethnic cleanse and have the country homogeneous Serbs and Croats so they could better unionize with Serbia and Croatia
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What was agreed upon at the accords signed between these two rival ethnicities in Dayton Ohio 1996
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to divide the country into 3 regions
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Did the Serbs Croats or Muslims get the best deal?
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Bosnian Serbs got the best deal because they got 1/2 of the country but only have 1/3 of the population. Croats got 1/4 of the land with only 1/6 of the population. The Muslims lost because they have 1/2 of the population but only got 1/4 of the land.
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What country and ethnicity controls Kosovo today?
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Ethnic Albanians- 90% population Serbia gained control when Yugoslavia broke up. They then wanted to ethnic cleanse the Albanians
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What are the principal ethnicities in the British isles
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English, Welsh, Scots, Irish. all have separate ethnicities but all have been colonized by England
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Nationalism
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Loyalty and devotion to a nationality. Politicians and the government try to install it.
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How do nations and states try to foster nationalism
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by promoting symbols ex- hammer and sickle is a symbol of communism ex- the bold eagle
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Centripetal force
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attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for the state
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when the British ended colonial rule of south Asia in 1947, What did they do to the region
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they divided it into India- Hindu and Pakistan - Muslim
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What 4 main countries are Kurds split between
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Eastern Turkey, Northern Iraq, West Iran, Syria
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What is the present day situation of the Kurdish people
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they have achieved autonomy but not independence and they are still forced to live under more prominent nationalities
