This Bachelor Thesis entitled The Beginning of the Homeland War and the "Bloody Easter" was tasked with bringing attention to events, causes and the very beginning of the cruelest war in Croatia's long history. It also had the task of paying attention to a small man from a small place in Imotski, one of us, and who fought for us and our freedom, who edged his name with golden letters in Croatian history. In the initial chapter, the author addressed the conditions and circumstances in Yugoslavia before the collapse of socialism, as well as the development and the ever-growing expansion of the Greater Serbian idea. As the work indirectly deals with border-change requirements, Yugoslavia's external and internal borders have been briefly explained. Furthermore, the Memorandum of the Serbian Academy of Sciences is mentioned, a delicate document that can be understood as a new call for war. With the more general events that coincided with the year of 1990, the new constitution and the multiparty elections, we have also touched upon some incidents (the Balvan-revolution) that only add to the fire, and the war conflict then becomes inevitable. By entering the fatal 1991, the establishment of the Serb Autonomous Region of Krajina and the beginnings of open aggression, we come to the central part of the thesis where events in Pakrac and Plitvice are being discussed, with a special review of young Josip Jovic, the first Croatian police officer who, unselfishly, laid down his life at the altar of the motherland.