would be lost.At this point, the United States should have chosen either unity or democracy. Clearly, both were not what Yugoslavia was headed for. A united Yugoslavia meant a strong central government controlled from Belgrade while a free and democratic Yugoslavia meant the potential for disintegration. By the end of 1991, United States policy shifted toward support for democratization and a free market economy and away from its former support of continues unity. On May 23, 1991, Secretary of State, James Baker, issued a statement of five principles of interest in Yugoslavia by the United States. First was democracy and last was unity. Finally, the United States had actually set some sort of priority on their objectives.On June 21, 1991, Slovenia declared independence. Slovenias discontent with the rest of the Yugoslav federation can be traced back to the 1970s when during the oil crisis that took the entire world by storm, Slovenians returned home from their then non-existent Western European jobs. Slovenias per capita income was twice that of the rest of Yugoslavia with zero unemployment making the republic a popular place for migrant Serbs and Albanians from Kosovo. This migration in the 1970s was not welcomed because after Titos death, Serbs throughout the Federation attempted to usurp the educational institutions of Slovenia and to institute a single, unified Yugoslav curriculum. The Slovenes saw this as an attempt to eliminate their national identity and because of this rejected it flatly (Bennett, 102).As a result of the attempts of the communists in Yugoslavia to reform the education system of Slovenia, the republics government undertook a massive campaign, mostly television advertising, to raise national awareness of the issues and to attempt to build support for a nationalist movement. It worked. Throughout Slovenia, one could find tee shirts with Slovenia my Homeland silk-screened on them. The campaign for nati...
