Kingdom of Yugoslavia Essays

  • Implementation of Adaptive Leadership

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    In order to explain the adaptive leadership in the case of Mihailovic I will briefly review the essence of adaptation and adaptive leadership. The simplest definition of adaptation sees it as the process by which an organism that adjusts to the environment, both in physical and mental conditions. It is a dynamic process of mutual influence in the ultimate goal of maintaining life in changing circumstances. However, adaptation does not refer only to organisms, but also to the organization to which

  • Yugoslavia: The Fabrication and Failure of a Nation

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    Yugoslavia was fabricated in the year of 1918. Located near the country of Italy, the territory is now broken up into six independent countries. The nation started to fall apart in the late 1980 's, following the World War II victory for the Allies. While some countries can benefit from diversity, there was just too much for Yugoslavia to survive. Yugoslavia as a nation failed because of too much autonomy between the six nations that came to be, too many different cultures in one nation, and simply

  • Response To Diken's Rape As A Weapon Of War

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    Yugoslavia was a country in Southeast Europe during most of the 20th century. It came into existence after World War I in 1918 under the name of Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes with independent Kingdom of Serbia and Kingdom of Montenegro. Yugoslavia gained international recognition on 13 July 1922 at the Conference of Ambassadors in Paris. This modern Yugoslavia existed from 1945 until the 90’s. Before the 20th century, the region found itself between two great empires, the Ottoman Empire

  • Macedonia Case Study

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    The Republic of Macedonia, a small country located in the heart of the Balkan Peninsula, declared its independence from Yugoslavia on 8th September 1991. The Republic of Macedonia now shares its borders with five neighboring countries (alphabetically as follows): Albania (Western Neighbor), Bulgaria (Eastern Neighbor), Greece (Southern Neighbor), Kosovo and Serbia (Northern Neighbors). The population of Macedonia is approximately two million people, out of which 64% are native Macedonians, and the

  • Genocide In Yugoslavia

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    The region that made up Yugoslavia was ruled by the Austria-Hungarian Empire and the Ottoman Empire for centuries. At the end of World War I, the Allied powers sought to weaken the defeated Central Powers. As a result, the Austrian-Hungarian Empire and the Ottoman Empire were broken up. Out of these fallen empires Yugoslavia was created, named after the south Slavic people that lived in the area. The Kingdom of Serbia, was also formed into Yugoslavia. In fact, the Serbian royal family became the

  • Socialist Serbia Summary

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    to a Greater Serbia Guzina, Dejan. "Socialist Serbia's narratives: From Yugoslavia to a greater Serbia." International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society 17, no. 1 (2003): 91-111. In the paper, Guzina presents Serbian national discourses about the relation between the official Yugoslavism and Serbian nationalism. They author suggests that such debate appeared in the early 1960s and continued to the end of Yugoslavia. The early stage of the debate can be seen as an sign of the reawakening

  • Yugoslavia

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    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

  • Essay On Bosnia And Herzegovina

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    began with the country of Yugoslavia in the 1900s. At the beginning of World War I, the Baltic region was controlled by Austria-Hungary. The trigger for WWI actually took place in Sarajevo, Bosnia, when a group of insubordinate Serbs assassinated Archduke Francis Ferdinand (heir to Austria-Hungary). In the ashes of the Austria-Hungarian Empire, the Baltic countries formed the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes in 1918. The Kingdom united as the country of Yugoslavia in 1929, of which Bosnia was

  • Austria-Hungary Imperialism

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    vanquishing country. They have brought together a gigantic land in which various countries lived (Hungarians, Czechs, Germans, Slovenes...) when nationality appeared to be unimportant. The people groups of the Empire lived separately in rather independent kingdoms, duchies and so forth. The pressures started when the total sovereigns looked to surrender the autonomies of the areas for a brought together government which began to advance the German dialect by which undermining alternate countries of the domain

  • Hitler's Four Horsemen

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    horsemen, anyone in the Hitler’s path is punishable by the spiritual deception of Satan’s sequences, as it is death to them and their country. As the kingdom of Hitler flourishes, Satan’s efforts to destroy the Jewish people includes the Axis leaders to also pledge their countries to his demonic want and system. In the launch of World War II, these four kingdoms (horsemen) are instrumental in the attempt to the earth’s purification to clean it from every stain of God’s people. Each separate nation takes

  • Necluer Weopons and Their Effect on the World

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    weapons grew. In 1955, a group of five countries including the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, France and the Soviet Union formed a committee as part of the U.N. Disarmament Commission to discuss the cessation of nuclear weapons testing. The committee made little progress over the next several years due to disagreements ove... ... middle of paper ... ...the United States, Israel, and United Kingdom have not ratified the treaty. President Obama, in his second term, is pushing for both

  • Croatia Research Paper

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    unrest, and political havoc. Heading into the 1900s Croatia did not even exist as it was officially part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. After the fall of the empire it join the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes becoming Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia was ran on a royal dictatorship till it became the Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia in 1945. The socialist party stayed in power till the 1970s when protests broke out demanding more freedom for the people and in 1990 the dream was realized when the country

  • History of England

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    To understand the relationship today between America and the UK, and this with Europe, we must first begin to understand where it all began. European hegemony of the nineteenth century was due mainly to Great Britain who was able to establish its power in global trade. At first the European countries represented a great power, new advances in new forms of trade, which emerged in Britain and later developed in the rest of the world, gave to Britain and Europe in general a place countries favoured

  • History Of Football In Croatia

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    Belgrade in 1929. The two most popular clubs in the country are rival clubs Hajduk from Split and Dinamo from Zagreb. Hajduk which is commonly referred to as Hajduk Split is a Croatian club that was founded in 1911 who participated in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia National Championship. Dinamo was commonly known as Dinamo Zagreb or referred to by their nickname Modri which meant “The Blues”. This club won fifteen Croatian Championship titles, twelve Croatian Cups and four Croatian Supercups. They have

  • The World In The 1950s

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    Prime Minister Winston Churchill of the United Kingdom, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the United States of America. As decided by the three leaders, Germany was to be split into four parts, with the last occupation zone being put under French control. In addition, Germany had to pay reparations to the Soviet Union “to compensate for 20 million Russian deaths” (Yalta, World). The conference concluded that Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Yugoslavia, and parts of Czechoslovakia would be independent

  • Essay On D-Day

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    invaded Poland. Then shortly after France and the United Kingdom declared war on Germany. More and more countries joined in and took sides; Axis powers or Allied powers. The Axis powers were made up of Germany, Italy, Japan, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria. The Allied powers were made up of U.S., Britain, France, USSR, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Greece, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, South Africa, and Yugoslavia. This was the biggest war in history because of all the

  • Post-Cold War Period Causes of Conflict

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    Post-Cold War Period Causes of Conflict The end of the Cold War meant that the ideological conflict of dominance between East (Soviet Union and Eastern Europe) and West (USA and Western Europe) was over. Contrary to the expectations that world would be much safer in the post-Cold War, United States and Soviet Union were faced with new security issues that they did not know how to deal with. The objective of this essay is to show that with all these changes that occurred with the end of

  • Kosovo Essay

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    The essay will discuss if Kosovo qualifies as a state under international law it will do so by looking at the history, recognition and by applying the factual criteria the state has to satisfy. The essay will conclude by deliberating whether Kosovo is a state and explain the Kosovo debate contribution to nature of international law. Introduction On 17 February 2008, the Assembly of Kosovo unilaterally proclaimed the Republic of Kosovo to be a sovereign state and declared its independence from Serbia

  • A comprehensive study on civil war: models and real cases

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    of war because they provided a low opportunity cost for rebellion. This corresponds to the phenomenon in which many countries that underwent civil war over the period 1960-1999 were poor developing countries such as Congo, Sudan and Zimbabwe. Yugoslavia likewise underwent an economic breakdown in 1989, shortly before the outbreak of wars in 1992. A poor overall economy generates social tensions, leading to war. Meanwhile, a high dependency on Pr... ... middle of paper ... ...lict-1970-2008-2/

  • Political Ideologies in Europe: 1900-Present

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    Political Ideologies in Europe: 1900-Present The world is an extremely varied place, filled with odd and different views on all sorts of subjects. One of these subjects is the matter of political ideologies and how a country should be lead. One of the prime locations to view this phenomena is in Europe, because of the large number of nations and their closeness to one another. States in Europe have risen and fallen in large numbers since 1900, and their ideologies have come and gone with them