Croatia

Yugoslavia, the country at long last disassembled over what historians would argue was “The bloodiest war in Europe since World War II” (Multi-Ethnic Conflict: Yugoslavia.). Yugoslavia was a country composed of six republics- The socialist republic of Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, and Slovenia. The country was created after world war one in 1929 and was under the control of the Soviet Union up until 1991 when the Soviet Union broke apart. With the fall of the Soviet Union

One of the youngest nations of Europe, Yugoslavia was created after World War I as a homeland for several different rival ethnic groups. The country was put together mostly from remnants of the collapsed Ottoman Empire and Austria-Hungary. Demands for self-determination by Slovenes, Croats, Serbs, and others were ignored. Yugoslavia thus became an uneasy association of peoples conditioned by centuries of ethnic and religious hatreds. World War II aggravated these rivalries, but Communist dictatorship

The defense cooperation of the United States in Croatia started formally in November of 1994. It was the time of the Croatian Homeland War, and the United States were the only country that had offered and initiated some of the defense cooperation programs with Croatia before the end of hostilities in the region. Throughout the cooperation, different terms were used, like Train, Advise, and Equip foreign armed forces, or the terms Building Partner Capacity (BPC) and Security Force Assistance (SFA)

Croatia is located in Central and Southeast Europe, bordering Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the southeast, Montenegro to the southeast, the Adriatic Sea to the southwest and Slovenia to the northwest.. The area is densely populated with just fewer than 5 million people. The main religions are Muslim and Christian. Most of the population is Roman Catholic with their government being run by three types of leadership including a prime minister, president and

Introduction. “The taking of hostages was an immoral act. We had to do whatever we could just to eliminate that dirty story from the history of Serbs.” (Slobodan Milosevic in an interview for the Time magazine, 1995). In the 1990s Yugoslavia was the battlefield of Europe’s bloodiest war since 1945. This notorious culmination was a product of an interconnected chain of events which began in the mid-1980s with the deepening of the conflict and the extremely strained relations between the two major

We can just observe the situation in Croatia, just in the last five years we can see at almost every corner of the state bankruptcy of the Croatian biggest companies, sold to foreign investors, the unemployment rate is on higher scale than ever before. Everything started with good promotion

Operation Oluja is the largest military operation in Croatian history, as well as a decisive turning point in the overall conflict on the territory of former Yugoslavia. With Operation Oluja around 14 % of the total territory of the Republic of Croatia was liberated. Its ending and results marked the collapse of the Greater Serbia idea of uniting all Serbian countries in former Yugoslavia and the creation of Greater Serbia. It changed the strategic force ratio in the region, which directly influenced

Bruce Bairinsfather’s “One of Those Balkan Muddles” cartoon depicts a dejected soldier, profoundly confused about his nationality and identity. The man does not seem to possess a clear ethnicity or home country, thus neither does he possess a true citizenship. He is not specifically tied to any one people, geographical area, or culture. The Empire was a confusing, heterogeneous mixture of several ethnicities forced into a single citizenship and state. This caricature reflects a comedized reality

directions, also the Communist party became decentralized (Drnovsek 58). He outlines the agendas of each ethnic group; Milosevic the leader of the Serbian party was trying to strengthen Serbian nationalism throughout the country whereas Slovenia and Croatia fought for democracy and independence from Serbia (Drnovsek 61). Drnovesk’s

that Croats and Serbs were a single people. This display of unity alarmed ruling circles but had little practical impact at the time as Belgrade Serbs paid little attention to Croatian politics. The ethnic tensions that were present in Croatia in the late 19th century were accompanied by a break down in Austro-Serbian relations driven by a crisis over trade. Since 1881 Austria had dominated Serbia’s foreign trade which consisted mostly of pigs driven to slaughterhouses in