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one must first look at the situation that existed there before the conflict. Bosnia is made up of three different ethnicities, the Muslims made up forty-five percent of the population, the Serbs made up thirty-three percent of the population and the Croats consisted of the remaining sixteen percent . The major difference between these ethnicities is not their language but their religions. The Muslims generally practice Islam, the Serbs were traditionally Orthodox and

compensation. “Even before the guns fell silent in 1918, the voices – plaintive, demanding, angry, had started. ‘China belongs to the Chinese.’ ‘Kurdistan must be free.’ ‘Poland must live again’... They complained: the Slovaks about the Czechs the Croats about the Serbs; the Arabs about the Jews; and the Chinese about the Japanese.” --- Margaret Macmillan (2001) (Paris 1919: Six Months That Change the World) The French demanded the most in reparations because the war had been fought almost exclusively

     Without a doubt, one of the darkest episodes in the history of mankind involved the systematic extermination of Jews, Gypsies, Slavs and gays by Nazi Germany. In order to get a good sense of the horror and despair that was felt by the interned, one simply needs to read the memoirs of Elie Wiesel in his “Night”, as translated from French by Stella Rodway and copyrighted by Bantam Books in 1960.      Elie Wiesel was born in Sighet, Transylvania

Michael Braverman 437848 msb4m7@mail.missouri.edu German Civilization 2320 Germany Expansionism Leading Towards World War I The Second Reich can be described as the period of German history when all of the previously fragmented German states became unified, excluding Austria, under the reign of Otto von Bismark. He led Germany to economic growth, rapid industrialization, and to become a powerful political force in Europe. However, Bismark’s reign only accounts for half of the Second Reich, the

Imagine having all of your belongings taken away from you in a matter of weeks and being deported from your own country, becoming a refugee in the process. The events that took place in Yugoslavia are an example of man’s inhumanity to man for the following reasons. The conflict between ethnic groups in Yugoslavia strengthened after their former president, Josip Tito, perished and the next president was a Serbian named Slobodan Milosevic who was an impatient homophobic serb who fed on hatred to gain

The formation of healthy relationships is crucial to the survival of the human race: parents to child, spouse to spouse, neighbor to neighbor, all are equally important for society to function. In the short stories “Ballet” and “A Wanderer”, the authors create relationships that were on the brink of destruction, which adds immense amounts of conflict to the plot. For example, in Pete Fromm’s “Ballet”, the young narrator attempts to mend his parents strained relationship, due to his father’s infidelity

Peninsula in Eastern Europe. After the end of the Soviet Union a number of European states were created, which included Bosnia. There was conflict between ethnic and religious groups because borders were changed. A war broke out in 1992 because Serbs and Croats living in Bosnia wanted the territory for themselves. Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic sent the Yugoslav Army to eastern Bosnia and killed thousands. They started an “ethnic cleansing” process; they destroyed large areas where Bosnian Muslims lived;

Douglas Reed’s Disgrace Abounding used the metaphor “The bitter strife [in Yugoslavia between Serb unionists and Croat federalists] had only been hidden by the iron safety-curtain of the King's dictatorship." Winston Churchill made the term famous in relation to the 1945 and 1946 USSR ideology especially the occurrences in satellite states under Russian control that

The post-Civil War, also known as the extended period that came to be known as the Gilded Age, was largely centered around and influenced by big business and corporations. The newfound efficiency of resources and mass production resulted in a wide variety of available products but also a wide divide between classes and a misdistribution of power that led to the forming of unions and passing of anti-trust legislation. Big business employed money and power to control and manipulate the economy and

The Holocaust is the official name of an unprecedented event that took place from 1933-1945 although depending on one’s views one could argue a later start date but I chose this date because it was when Jews began being nationally discriminated against under the Nazi regime. The Holocaust is the name given for the genocide of Jews by Hitler, the Nazi regime, and its supporters. Although this event took place mainly in Central Europe I will be arguing that it was a local, regional, transnational and