Essays on Sarajevo

Throughout the world history, there were many examples of genocides. Most of them took place in the XX century and they were the most violent ever in history. According to the estimates, only during Holocaust (Germany) and Holodomor (USSR) over 10 million people dies due to the unlawful and inhuman actions of the governments. For sure, the reasons for those genocides were different as “the leaders goals vary, depending on the time, place, and circumstances” (PBS). For instance, Adolf Hitler wanted to create a vast political empire, Joseph Stalin wanted to secure himself from any kind of rebellion, Slobodan ...

The WW1 erupted in the year 1914 and continued for about four years. The main participating countries were from Europe, N. America, Middle East, as well as other nations. The war was fought between two alliances, that is, the Central Powers versus the Allies. The Central Powers majorly comprised Germany, Turkey, as well as Austria-Hungary while the Allies was made up of France, Russia, Japan, Great Britain, Italy, as well as the U.S, which joined later in 1917 towards the end of the war. The WW1 was unique in its nature, marked with mass human killings, property destruction, as ...

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Basing on the major causes of the Bosnian war, the above statement by Maass is true and very applicable. This war was essentially fought because Croats and Serbs who lived in Bosnia wanted to seize the Bosnian territory for Croatia and Serbia respectively. This was trailed majorly by several mitigation factors, with ethnic tensions in addition. Slobodan Milosevic was the national leader for Serbia by then and was assertive for what he referred to as a “Greater Serbia”. The Muslims and the Croats who lived in Bosnia feared that Milosevic would endeavor to take the land that they occupied ...

Blewett, D. K. (2001). The great world war, 1914-45. vol. 1: Lightning strikes twice. Library Journal, 126(6), 114-114. Retrieved June 5, 2012, from Proquest database. (Document ID: 196847014).

The journal focuses on analysing the wars that occurred between 1914 and 1945; both World War 1 and 2. Leaders in the two wars are also analysed and compared, including Churchill, Hitler, Lloyd George, and the Kaiser. In the journal, World War one was differentiated as relatively stable, but a deadly one compared to World War II, which had a larger geography, troops, and mobile operations. The source was very useful ...

America and the Great War

Assassination of Franz Archduke was the ultimate cause of the world war one. His wife was also killed in the same event in Sarajevo, Bosnia, a part of Austria-Hungary. The assassin was a young student of Serbia. The Austo- Hungarian made very tough demand to Serbia for the killings and eventually declared war on Serbia. Russia and France joined in support of Serbia. Then German declared war on France and Russia and consequently Britain declared war on Germany (Miles, 2001). A chain of such events of mutual defence followed until the war became a holocaust that affected most of the Nations in ...