Crisis in Kosovo

A detailed Summary of Crisis in Kosovo

Foundations in the Crisis in Yugoslavia

For hundreds of years there has been conflicts in the area of Yugoslavia. The present day conflicts between the United Nations and Slobodan Milosevic and the Serbians has caused uproar throughout the world. Many innocent lives have been lost since the beginning of the present warfare, but there has been bad blood between the Serbians and the ethnic Albanians long before President Milosevic started pushing the Albanians out of their motherland.

Yugoslavia is a federated country situated on the west central Balkan Peninsula. It is a union of two related states, the republics of Serbia and Montenegro. Serbia is landlocked, but Montenegro forms a bridge southwestward from southern Serbia to the Adriatic Sea. Serbs have been living in the territory of Kosovo and Metohija since the 6th century, yet they make up only one-tenth of the population. The areas in interest are the most undeveloped in Yugoslavia. For over two centuries the area of Yugoslavia were under the rule of the Ottoman Empire. During the 15th and 16th centuries the Ottoman Empire was the most powerful empire in the world. Although sometimes called the Ottoman Nights by many people who were under the rule there was mu

Ten years of almost continuous war began with the onset of the Balkan Wars in October 1912 and lasted through World War I and to the resolution of the status of Albania in May 1922 in the areas surrounding Yugoslavia. Although countries like Serbia gained vast amounts of land during this time the bitterness between the Hungarians and the Serbs reached a peak. The peak was when Austrian archduke Francis Ferdinand attended a military review at Sarajevo. There a group called the secret society assassinated him and his wife. This was the catalyst for the beginning of the First World War. The first and second world wars had a deep lasting effect on this area. Although Yugoslavia tried hard to be an independent and non-warring nation during the second world war the pressure from the Nazis were too much and they eventually succumbed to them on March 25, 1941, the regents signed the Tripartite Pact. This was followed by numerous demonstrations in Belgrade by commoners. Afterward the Slavic nations were divided into an array of puppet states, with these new creations being placed under German or Italian zones of military control.

In 1942 the communists formed the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia, which, as a self-declared "temporary government," linked acknowledgment of the ethnic plurality of the peoples of Yugoslavia with the reconstitution of Yugoslavia as a federation. At that time communist forces in Serbia were relatively weak. Following their defeat 1941, they returned only in the closing stages of the war, when, armed by the Western Allies and supported by the advancing Red Army, they came to conquer a basically anticommunist Serbia. The last of the royal traitors were finally found and persecuted in the early 1950s.

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