Chapter 14 Turmoil in the Balkans & Cleaning up Europe.
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Transcript of Chapter 14 Turmoil in the Balkans & Cleaning up Europe.
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Chapter 14
Turmoil in the Balkans
&
Cleaning up Europe
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Map of EuropePre-Balkanizaton
Check out Yugoslavia
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Yugoslavia
1946 new constitution organized Yugoslavia into six republics:– Bosnia & Herzegovina – Croatia– Macedonia– Montenegro– Serbia– Slovenia
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War in Bosnia
• 1992 Bosnia and Herzegovina declared independence
– Serbs launched a war to stop the independence
– Serbs used ETHNIC CLEANSING to rid Bosnia of its Muslims and Croats
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War in Kosovo• Serbs used ETHNIC CLEANSING to rid
Kosovo of its Albanian population
• NATO bombed Serbia to force them to stop the violence; Serbia withdrew.
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Future of the Balkans
• Ethnic loyalties = tension
• War = refugees and poverty
• Some republics still want independence
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Cleaning up Europe
• Pollution spreads!! Nations must work together!
European Environmental Agency provides the EU with reliable information about the environment
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Water Problems
• Poland until 1990, 44% of cities had no sewage treatment plants = unsafe water
• Fertilizers = too much algae and plants; kills fish
• Oil Spills = kills thousands of birds and ocean life
These fish were killed as a result of living in polluted water.
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Air Pollution
• Fossil Fuels = smog and ozone problems
• Polluted air = respiratory
diseases, lung cancer
and acid rain
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THE EU
• After WWII Europe began to unify to improve their economies, EU established.
• Eastern European countries are less prosperous because they were once communist countries under Russia.
• But these countries offer new trade, more people, and a united continent.