Ethnicities Key Issue: What is Ethnic Cleansing? Chapter 7-4 Ethnicities Key Issue: What is Ethnic Cleansing?

I. WWII A) Leading up to WWII B) Genocide C) Post WWII

D) Cold War

Intro Video (5 minutes) http://youtu.be/KRPP3RatJzU

II. 1990’s A) New Conflicts between ….. B) Ethnic Cleansing – process in which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region. C) Plain Language:

III. Ethnic Cleansing in Yugoslavia A) Balkan Peninsula Includes the countries of Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania and what was Yugoslavia. (whole area – about the size of Texas)

B) WWI Former Yugoslavia

C) Way more… (centripetal or centrifugal) Nationalistic Motto: “Yugloslavia has 7 neighbors, 6 republics, 5 nationalities, 4 languages, 3 religions, 2 alphabets and 1 dinar!”

Refers to: Economic interests & dictator united Yugoslavia 7 neighbors: Austria, Greece, Italy, Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania 6 republics: country divided into these regions that had a log of local autonomy 5 nationalities: former pre-WWI nationalities 4 languages: Croatian, Macedonian, Serbian, Slovenian 3 major religions: Roman Catholic (North), Eastern Orthodox (East) and Islam (South) 2 alphabets – Croatian & Slovenian are in Roman Alphabet. Macedonian & Serbian are in Cyrillic Alphabet 1 dinar – National unit of currency (money) Economic interests & dictator united Yugoslavia

D) Destruction of Yugoslavia as a country 1) Tito’s Death (late 1980’s) – Economy fell apart 2) Source of Conflict 3) Bosnia Very Multiethnic Serbs wanted to unite with Serbia Croats wanted to unite with Croatia Ethnic Muslims (40%) caught in the middle

Map of Bosnia

Vocab – Chapter 1! What “technique” was used to get this picture??

E) NATO (stands for… )

and the UN (stands for…)

F) End of Yugoslavia(2008)

G) Balkanization Definition: the process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities http://youtu.be/Ic5tBXESxl8

JUST READ: The End! I. Pg 232– Ethnic Cleansing in Central Africa II. Pg 235– Study the map of Africa. Looking at this map, answer this question: “Why does there continue to be so much ethnic conflict in Africa?” The End!