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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From 1983 to 1988, the United States gives Iraq more than ____________ per year in credit so that Iraq could purchase American products.
(a) $500 million.
(b) $50 million.
(c) $5 million.
(d) $1 billion.

2. The Allies have ____________ intelligence on Hitler's extermination of European Jews.
(a) Very little.
(b) A great deal of.
(c) Zero.
(d) Some.

3. One year after the U.S. ratifies the genocide convention, who is the president of Iraq?
(a) Ali Hassan al-Majid.
(b) Reza Pahlavi.
(c) Saddam Hussein.
(d) Hamid Karzai.

4. What term does the Allied condemnation apply to Turkey's persecution of the Armenians?
(a) Genocide.
(b) Crimes against humanity.
(c) Racism.
(d) Ethnic cleansing.

5. President Carter makes the first public condemnation of the Khmer Rouge in ____1978.
(a) September.
(b) January.
(c) April.
(d) August.

Short Answer Questions

1. The town of Halabja becomes known as the Kurdish ____________.

2. What city does the Khmer Rouge seize in 1975 after a five-year civil war and defeat of the incumbent, American-backed government?

3. Why doesn't the international community prosecute individuals for their roles in exterminating millions of German Jews?

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

5. In the United States, Peter Galbraith, a staff member of the __________________, keep watch on the situation in Iraq.

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