Vocabulary

Ethnic Cleansing: a process by which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one to create a ethnically homogeneous reigion.
Balkanization: the process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities as a threat to peace throughout the world not just in a small area.
Balkanized: a small geographic area that could not be successfully organized into one or more stable states because it was inhabited by many ethnicities that could not get along.

Ethnic Cleansing in Yugoslavia

After World War 1 the allies created Yugoslavia to unite the Balkan ethnicities that spoke similar south Slavic languages. The biggest ethnicities brought into Yugoslavia were the Croats and the Serbs. The others were the Slovenes, Macedonians, and Montenegrens. Yugoslavia was under the leadership of Josip Broz Tito and when he died the ethnicities rivalries resurfaced and broke the country up.

Ethnic Cleansing in Central Africa

The Hutus and Tutsis lie at the heart of a series of wars in central Africa. The Hutus hated the Tutsis because when the Tutsis were in control they discriminated against the Hutus, so when the Hutus took control they killed all of the Tutsis.



By Bryanne McCormick