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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens on February 11, 1986?
(a) The U.S. version of the genocide treaty was rejected in the Senate.
(b) The U.S. version of the genocide treaty went up for a full Senate vote.
(c) The U.S. Holocaust Museum was opened to the public.
(d) President Reagan nearly died in an assassination attempt.

2. On what date is the law banning genocide passed?
(a) December 21, 1950.
(b) December 8, 1949.
(c) Not applicable; it was defeated on December 9, 1948.
(d) December 9, 1948.

3. Under NATO plan 40-104, how many troops are the U.S. committed to deploying to help with the extraction of European forces?
(a) 25,000.
(b) None.
(c) 15,000.
(d) 250,000.

4. Lemkin had read many of the histories detailing what crime?
(a) Rape.
(b) Mass slaughter.
(c) Treason.
(d) Mass suicide.

5. What governmental position does Mehmed Talaat, who conducts the genocide, hold?
(a) Prime minister.
(b) Crown prince.
(c) Interior minister.
(d) Minister of public safety.

Short Answer Questions

1. President Carter makes the first public condemnation of the Khmer Rouge in ____1978.

2. Early signs of trouble in the Balkans begin with brief wars in Slovenia and Croatia in the early:

3. In what city is Szmul Zygielbojm, the man who releases a report prepared by an underground Jewish society in Poland that detailed the tactics Nazis were using to kill the Jews, located?

4. The ratification of the genocide treaty makes the U.S. ________ in its reactions to genocide.

5. Which senator begins denouncing Yugoslavia's human rights issues in the 1980s?

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