Balkan History
The two empires that Yugoslavia was carved out of
What were the Ottoman Empire and Austria-Hungary?
Who was Mikhail Gorbachev?
The Russian term meaning restructuring, refers to the restructuring of the Soviets economic system under Mikhail Gorbachev
What was Perestroika?
Ethnicities purged by Tito upon his rise to power
What is December 25, 1991?
What is Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodox, and Islam?
Ruled Yugoslavia with an iron fist, despite being a communist did not ally himself and Yugoslavia with the Soviet Union, led the unaligned movement among communist countries during the Cold War
Who was Josep Broz Tito?
First free elections in Poland under Soviet control
A major movement among ethnicities within Yugoslavia that advocated for separate states for each group
What is nationalism?
Soviet Response to NATO, made up of eastern bloc countries
What was the Warsaw Pact?
Three ethnicities occupying the Balkan peninsula
What are Slovenian, Croatian, Bosnian, Herzegovinian, Serbian, Macedonian, Montenegrin, Albanian, Dalmatian
Successor to Joseph Stalin, began the process of destalinization in the Soviet Union
The Russian term meaning openness, implemented under Gorbachev's administration allowing for greater free speech within the Soviet Union
Event that prompted the fall of Yugoslavia
What is the death of Tito?
What is 1989?
Period of Turkish rule over the majority of the Balkans
What was the 14th-18th century?
Leader of the solidarity movement, first democratically elected Polish leader since 1926
Who was Lech Walesa?
Policy of easing tensions between western powers and the Soviet Union, began under Nixon's administration but would be temporarily halted under Reagans before being put into effect again.
What is detente?
Serbian statesman who would contribute heavily to the breakup of Yugoslavia and commit war atrocities
Who was Slobodan Milosevic?
What is economic crisis, glasnost, and nationalism?
The ethnicity to gain control of the Balkan peninsula following World War 1, strong arming its neighbors into accepting its rule
What is Serbian?
"The Iron Lady," first female prime minister of Great Britain, staunch conservative and friend to US president Ronald Reagan
Who was Margaret Thatcher?
The class where you would learn more about the Tehran Conference held in 1943, where the big 3 met to discuss post war plans, consequently sparking the Cold War as America and Russia grew to distrust one another even more.
What is World War 1 and 2 History?
Group formed by Tito to identify war criminals, ultimately used as a tool to eliminate political enemies during Tito's consolidation of power.
What was the Yugoslav State Commission for the Determination of Crimes of the Occupiers and their Collaborators?
Soviet leader following Khrushchev that would undo his destalinization policies and reenact many Stalinist policies
Who was Leonid Brezhnev?