Question

question 3
what happened to nato’s membership between 2004 - 2009?

• membership increased as two powerful nations, china and russia, joined
• membership increased as many eastern european nations joined
• membership decreased as many nations left nato because of the united states’ invasion of iraq
• membership increased as many newly independent african nations joined

question 4
what event precipitated the breakup of yugoslavia?

• the death of josip tito because he was a brutal dictator who sought to establish yugoslavia as a serbian nation and targeted other ethnic groups
• the collapse of the soviet union because yugoslavia could no longer depend on economic aid from the ussr and the yugoslav economy crashed
• the collapse of the soviet union because yugoslavia was part of the ussr and after its collapse, many groups within yugoslavia declared independence
• the death of josip tito because he maintained relative peaceful coexistence in the ethnically and religiously diverse country

Explanation:

1. For Question 3: Between 2004-2009, NATO expanded with multiple Eastern European countries (including Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia, Albania) joining the alliance. China and Russia have never joined NATO, no mass exits occurred over the Iraq invasion, and no African nations joined in this period.
2. For Question 4: Josip Tito's death in 1980 removed the unifying figure that had suppressed ethnic tensions in Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia was not part of the USSR, and Tito's rule kept ethnic groups in relative balance, not as a Serbian-focused dictator. The Soviet collapse was not the direct precipitating event.

Answer:

1. Question 3: Membership increased as many eastern European nations joined
2. Question 4: The death of Josip Tito because he maintained relative peaceful coexistence in the ethnically and religiously diverse country