1. Bellringer Get out your Pollution articles and map
Add symbols for Chernobyl and the Black Triangle to your map.
Answer these on paper & highlight in text:
How did the explosion in Chernobyl happen (cause)?
What were the effects on Belarus & Sweden?
What were some immediate effects of the explosion? Long term effects? (good and bad)
Where is the Black Triangle and why is it called that?
What are the effects of high chimney use in cities?
List three ways Europe is trying to reduce acid rain production.

2. Bellringer Get out your Bosnia Genocide article and your map.
Add Kosovo and Montenegro to your map (line to separate)

3. Simplified Yugoslavia
WWII: Nazis invaded Yugoslavia Tito led uprising became Communist leader post-war
Many ethnic groups/provinces now tied together
Tito dies in 1980 with no strong successor
Serbian Milosevic takes hold strong nationalist stirred tensions b/w Serbs (Orthodox Christians) and Muslims (in Bosnia & Albania/Kosovo)
Christians in Kos. told of mistreatment by Muslim Albanians in Kos Serbia took complete control

4. Simplified Yugoslavia
1991: Slovenia & Croatia declare indepen. from Yug.
Yug. Army (mostly Serbs) attacked Slovenia, but fail
Focus on Croatia b/c more Serbs live there
During WWII Serbs in Croatia had been massacred
Milosevic wants to ‘protect’ Serb minority in Croatia
Mass executions, bombings, destruction of Croat/Muslim bldgs by Serbs world did not interfere (arms embargo had little effect)
Cease-fire end of 1991(US)

5. Simplified Yugoslavia
1992: EU* & U.S. recognize Bosnia indep.
Serbs are minority in the Muslim country
Milosevic attacked Sarajevo
Bosnian Muslim Genocide
Mass executions, forced displacement, concentration camps, rape as a weapon “ethnic cleansing”
Destruction of Muslim religious and historical bldgs
UN put econ. sanctions on Serbia, sent food & medicine (no military axn)
Feb. 1994: bombing of marketplace global broadcast

6. Simplified Yugoslavia
1993: Clinton gives ultimatum cease-fire in Sarajevo
US unites Croatian Catholics & Bosnian Muslims Serbs attack again (including UN troops)
NATO launches air attacks
Srebrenica 8,000 murdered, mass rapes
Aug. 1995: US led NATO bombings til Oct. & Bosnian Muslims receive weapons from Islamic world
Nov. 1995:Peace talks held in Ohio
Milosevic tried for war crimes

7. Simplified Kosovo
Late 1800s: Albanians (Muslims) now majority in Kosovo
Serbia wins territory in First Balkan War (1912)Kosovo an autonomous province
Albanian ethnic nationalism in 80s riots for Kosovo’s indep. from Serbia
Kosovo Serbs claim Kosovo Albanians mistreated them Milosevic takes away autonomy & represses Albanians in early 90s
Albanians form Kos. Liberation Army insurgents

8. Simplified Kosovo 1998: Serbs conduct counterinsurgency
Massacres, expelled Albanians
NATO responded w/ bombing in March 1999 Serbia w/draws
1999: Kosovo put under transitional admin by UN….UNMIK
Negotiations began in
February 2008: Kosovo declared independent
Serbia still rejects their independence