1. Turmoil in the Balkans & Cleaning up Europe
Chapter 14
Turmoil in the Balkans
&
Cleaning up Europe

2. Map of Europe Pre-Balkanizaton
Check out Yugoslavia

3. Yugoslavia
1946 new constitution organized Yugoslavia into six republics:
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Croatia
Macedonia
Montenegro
Serbia
Slovenia

5. 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

6. 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.

7. Future of the Balkans Ethnic loyalties = tension
War = refugees and poverty
Some republics still want independence

9. Cleaning up Europe Pollution spreads!! Nations must work together!
European Environmental Agency
provides the EU with reliable information about the environment

10. 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.

11. Air Pollution Fossil Fuels = smog and ozone problems
Polluted air = respiratory
diseases, lung cancer
and acid rain

12. 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.