Monday, March 13, 2006

Josip Broz Paragraph *updated*

Josip Broz "Tito"
A Great Yugoslavia Leader...
A short summary by Sarah Hogg
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Josip Broz was born either May 7th or 25th of the year 1892. He was born in Kumrovec, formally the Austro-Hungary Empire in an area named Zagorje. He was the seventh child to his parents Marija and Franjo.
In
1920, he became a proud member of the soon to banned Communist Party of Yugoslavia. In 1934, Josip became a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Party, then located in to Austria, and adopted the code name "Tito".
Tito and managed to successfully overtake democratic power in Yugoslavia over time and through some years of indirect involvements with political and military events. From autumn
1913, when he first served in the Austro-Hungarian Army, to five years later and his involvements in 1918, where he applied for membership in the Russian Communist Party. Historically speaking it was not until December 4Th of, 1943 that Tito successfully proclaimed and earned his provisional democratic Yugoslav government and was subsequently named the Marshal of Yugoslavia.As the leader of the communist resistance, Tito was an obvious target for the Axis forces that happened to occupy parts of Yugoslavia. The Germans came close to capturing and terminating Tito, but were never successful. With political and economic power in his control, Tito established his own kind of communism called Titoism. This occurred in 1948 when Tito became the first Communist leader to essentially defy Stalin's leadership over the Cominform (communist reform, formation). Tito gained much international recognition, but at the same time caused a conflict with the Soviet Union, thus disputes and hatred shared towards Tito and Stalin.
Titoism encouraged eliminations of suspected "Titoites'" throughout the use of independent socialism, thus another reason for His constant disagreements and constant confrontations with Stalin. These Relations would only keep getting worse between Stalin and Tito until Yugoslavia would be expelled from the Cominform.
Tito died In January of the 1980''s and there was much increased speculation in regards to whether or not all aspects of Titoism would decline. They did in-fact after his death and were replaced by the rival policies of constituent republics. Popular leaders such as
Slobodan Milošević and Franjo Tuđman started advocating irredentist and separatist principles. There were also series of Yugoslav wars because of Ethnic disputes after his death because many of the strong ties that held down ethnic disagreements were broken. After Tito died, Slobodan Milosevic became the new leader. This weekend he passed away of 'natural causes' at the age of 64 years. This is hard for most people to deal with beacuse prior to his death he was on trial for the many war crimes and massive genocide attemps he made while during his reign of power.

*KEY TERM*

Non-alignment: During the cold war times, members of the non-aligned movement were often the targets of US imperialism and Soviet imperialism because of their stubbornness to be involved with other countries ONLY for the purpose of increasing status and challenging weaker economic and military power countries. Both the USA and Soviet Union tried to attract non-aligned countries into their respective camps.
--SaraH*