Bosnia and Serbia
Historically and politically, the Bosnians and the Russians are a perfect match.This history started in the middle of the first thousand years A.D. when the tribes called the Southern Slavs migrated into the southeast area of Europe known as the Balkans. The Slav people as they are known, were separ....
Causes of World War 1
WHY DID WAR BREAK OUT IN 1914
WHY DID WAR BREAK OUT IN 1914? The Great War in 1914-18 began in August 1914. The causes of the war has been debated by politicians and historians ever since. One of a few things they have seemed to agree on is that the war was a result of many different complex fact....
causes of world war 1 (ww1)
Causes Of Ww1
World War One or 'The Great War' as it became known, occurred due to many causes, some of which still remain unexposed today. The obvious trigger for the war was the assassination of the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie on 28th J....
Causes of World War One
The long-term origins to World War One start back in 1870 with the Franco-Prussian War. In the Franco-Prussian war France lost to Germany which lead to the two countries never being in an alliance with one another. Once the war was over it lead to the forming of the triple Alliance which was one of ....
Greek Immigrants coming to America
THE FIRST GREEKS IMMIGRANTS IN AMERICA
The first of Greek immigrants included 40 orphans who had survived the Greek Revolution of 1821 and who were brought to the United States by American missionaries, survivors of the 1822 massacre of Chios, and merchant sailors who settled in the Americas. B....
Serbia's Radios
Fair and impartial reporting of the Balkan wars in the 1990s was a difficult and lone venture. Almost all of the international media had their own biases due to their countries part in the war (through NATO or their proximity to the conflict), their acceptance of parts of Serbian government propag....
The Balkans
The conflict in the Balkans is interesting because for years, reporters and politicians have touted it as being the result of ancient ethnic hatred but that isn’t the case. This class has taught me, if nothing else, that the people of this region lived together peacefully for centuries and an....
Why was the Eastern Question so important to Europe in the latter half of the nineteenth century?
The Eastern Question on Europe in the nineteenth century involves the diplomatic and political problems caused by the decay of the Ottoman Empire (Turkey). The Eastern Question expression does not apply to any one particular problem, instead it applies to a variety of issues raised through the....