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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the U.S. embassy in London cables Washington with news of the Srbrenica atrocities, how do senior U.S. and UN officials treat the situation?
(a) As nothing out of the ordinary.
(b) As a military situation.
(c) As an international humanitarian crisis.
(d) As an act of war.

2. In 1991, __________ begins to break up into smaller countries.
(a) Czechoslovakia.
(b) Yugoslavia.
(c) The Soviet Union.
(d) The Ottoman Empire.

3. The Bosnian Serbs' actions against non-Serbs are euphemistically referred to as:
(a) Ethnic re-alignment.
(b) Ethnic unification.
(c) Ethnic purification.
(d) Ethnic cleansing.

4. Which president's administration comes under fire as more people now realize that the U.S. cannot pursue both an end to genocide and a policy of nonintervention in the Balkans?
(a) Bill Clinton.
(b) Al Gore.
(c) George W. Bush.
(d) George H.W. Bush.

5. In October 1945, the Nuremberg indictments all mention ______________ in an international legal setting, although it is not be mentioned in the convictions.
(a) Terrorism.
(b) Warmongering.
(c) War crimes.
(d) Genocide.

Short Answer Questions

1. What nonbinding measure is suggested as a replacement of the UN genocide treaty, angering Lemkin?

2. What happens on Dec. 11, 1946?

3. The Serb crackdown in Kosovo is endangering a fragile peace in Bosnia on which the U.S. had already spent more than:

4. In what year does President Reagan lay a wreath at Germany's Bitburg Cemetery, which holds the graves of 49 Nazi SS officials?

5. What proportion of United Nations member states must ratify a measure before it becomes international law?

(see the answer key)

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