Original scientific paper
AMERICAN POLITICS TOWARD FORMER YUGOSLAVIA FROM WILSON TO ROOSEVELT
Ivan Čizmić
; Institute of Applied Social Research, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
American politics toward former Yugoslavia was not very clear in either of the two world wars. Even though the principle of national self-determination encouraged Southern Slavs to seek the break-up of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, Woodrow Wilson persisted in advocating the preservation of the Monarchy, only offering Slavs an autonomy in the Fourteen Points. Only the development of the war and the political situation changed American politics which led to the agreement to dissolve the Monarchy.
American politics toward the State of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes was from the beginning also reserved. Although the State Department knew about the Great-Serb basis of the new state and the opposition by the non-Serb peoples, Roosevelt and American government condemned the German aggression on Yugoslavia in 1941. During the Second World War, American politics advocated the renewal of Yugoslavia as a democratic federated state of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes. Only Roosevelt advocated that Croats and Serbs should decide on the future of that state through a plebiscite, but events did not allow the realization of Roosevelt's idea.
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210283
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Publication date:
4.7.1994.
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