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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which senator begins denouncing Yugoslavia's human rights issues in the 1980s?
(a) Hillary Clinton.
(b) Strom Thurmond.
(c) Bob Dole.
(d) Ted Kennedy.

2. In the United States, Peter Galbraith, a staff member of the __________________, keep watch on the situation in Iraq.
(a) Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
(b) House Foreign Relations Committee.
(c) Senate Finance Committee.
(d) Joint Chiefs of Staff.

3. On what date does NATO begin bombing Serb forces?
(a) August 30, 1995.
(b) July 20, 1995.
(c) July 24, 1995.
(d) July 27, 1995.

4. The first wave of calls for an international war crimes tribunal in the 1990s comes after:
(a) The Rwandan genocide.
(b) The Bosnian genocide.
(c) Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait.
(d) The Srbrenica massacre.

5. Early signs of trouble in the Balkans begin with brief wars in Slovenia and Croatia in the early:
(a) 1990s.
(b) 1970s.
(c) 1910s.
(d) 1980s.

Short Answer Questions

1. Under NATO plan 40-104, how many troops are the U.S. committed to deploying to help with the extraction of European forces?

2. Which Serb is in custody for carrying out the Srebrenica atrocities?

3. On what date do NATO jets begin bombing Serbia in an attempt to head off the looming genocide in Kosovo?

4. In 1991, __________ begins to break up into smaller countries.

5. Whom does Iraq's president appoint as secretary-general of the Northern Bureau?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Yugoslavia began to break up into smaller countries in 1991, what dilemma was Bosnia thrown into?

2. Within hours of President Habyarimana's death, whom did armed Hutus begin targeting?

3. What were the terms of the agreement that Milosevic signed on June 3, 1999, after his surrender?

4. From 1987-1988, Hussein's military killed how many Kurds as it destroyed thousands of Kurdish villages?

5. When Bosnian Serbs declared an independent Serb state, what measure did Western countries take in an attempt to stabilize the area?

6. Why was President Reagan's 1985 visit to Germany's Bitburg Cemetery to lay a wreath so controversial?

7. What were the conditions under which Milosevic was delivered to The Hague for his trial?

8. Why was the Arusha agreement unpopular with Hutu extremists?

9. Why did the U.S. turn a blind eye to Iraqi brutality against the Kurds?

10. In the middle of July 1995, what did journalists stationed in the Balkan region begin reporting?

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