Saddam Hussein of Iraq and Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia were two very imposing dictators who ruled their nations cruelly and powerfully. Their tactics worked in the short run to superficially hold together ethnic tensions. However‚ both countries violently imploded from decades of internal repression after Tito died in 1980 and Saddam was captured in 2003. Saddam Hussein was born in 1937 into a very troubled household. His brother and father died shortly before his birth‚ and his mother refused to
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began the struggle between Serbia and the Austro-Hungarian government. On 28 June 1914‚ the Archduke Franz-Ferdinand‚ wearing his seven lucky charm and his light-blue cavalry dress with bullet proof‚ and his wife visited Sarajevo‚ the capital of Bosnia‚ to review these troops. It was a sunny Sunday morning. Franz Ferdinand and his wife arrive at Sarajevo railway station at 9:30 a.m. The Duke and his wife get into a dark green‚ open-topped car because its their wedding anniversary.
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and self determination swept through Europe. The Serbs‚ Bosnians‚ Croats‚ and Slovenes wanted independence. The Serbs were the first to gain independence‚ but the Austro-Hungarians limited their growth. In 1908‚ the Austro-Hungarian Empire annexed Bosnia‚ angering the Serbs. * A Continent Goes To War: The heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne‚ Archduke Franz Ferdinand‚ was in the Bosnian capital‚ Sarajevo‚ where he was assassinated by a Serbian nationalist‚ Gavrilo Princip. The Austro-Hungarians
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however‚ lay in the decisions taken by statesmen and generals during the July Crisis of 1914 caused by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie by Gavrilo Princip‚ an ethnic Serb and Yugoslav nationalist from the group Young Bosnia‚ which was supported by the Black Hand‚ a nationalist organization in Serbia.[1] The crisis came after a long and difficult series of diplomatic clashes among the Great Powers (Italy‚ France‚ Germany‚ Britain‚ Austria-Hungary and Russia) over European
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Chapter 1 Question 1: What did Prince Otto von Bismarck‚ the German chancellor‚ see as the task of German Foreign policy? The German Chancellor‚ Prince Otto Von Bismarck saw the German foreign policy‚ which is a governments strategy with dealing with other nations‚ as the diplomatic isolation of France. his depiction of Germanys strategy saw that it was impossible for France to get their revenge in such isolation. Bismarck sought to deny France of any possible allies they could get in order to stop
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In 1881‚ Germany came up with an alliance with Austria-Hungary and Russia called the “Three Emperors’ League”. During their alliances‚ both Germany and Russia had many disputes over Bosnia and Serbia because both were greedy for that land. This alliance went on until a Wilhelm II became the new emperor of Germany and fired of Bismarck who came with the alliance‚ and kicked Russia of the league. In 1908‚ France signed an alliance treaty with Russia and later on with Britain called The Triple Entente
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Competitor Locations 5 3.1 Croatia 6 3.1.1 Export Oriented Knowledge-led Services 9 3.1.2 Foreign Direct Investment 9 3.2 Bulgaria 11 3.3 Romania 13 3.4 Slovenia 15 3.5 Serbia 16 3.5.1 FDI Oriented Exporters 16 3.6 Albania 17 3.7 Bosnia and Herzegovina 18 3.8 Macedonia 19 Section 4 20 Export Performance 2000 to 2005-Croatia and its Major Competitors 20 Section 5 22 Factors Influencing the Attraction of FDI 22 5.1 Overall Infrastructure Quality 23 5.2 Quality of Educational
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main underlying causes of WWI are nationalism‚ alliances‚ and militarism. In the years leading up to WWI‚ nationalism was gaining popularity. However‚ the group to stand up for their nation‚ setting off WWI‚ were Slavic peoples in Herzegovina and Bosnia. They wished not be part of Austria-Hungary‚ instead striving to
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People believe that one of the ’major’ causes of world war one was the assassination of Arch-duke Franz Ferdinand by a Serbian nationalist‚ by the name of Garvilo Princip. but that is not the case‚ while there was a different chain of events that directly lead to the fighting‚ the actual root causes are much deeper. These are the major reasons that are cited as the root causes of world war 1. Alliances: Over time‚ countries throughout Europe made mutual defense agreements that would pull them into
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achievement in peacemaking‚ however most of the countries who participated in this Congress were not completely satified. The Ottoman Empire‚ called at the time « the sick man of Europe » became more vulnerable than it was before‚ and tensions developped in Bosnia and Herzegovina since Austria gained a lot of territory thanks to the
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