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

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) 250,000.
(b) 25,000.
(c) 15,000.
(d) None.

2. What is the purpose of President Reagan's trip to Germany, which includes a visit to Germany's Bitburg Cemetery?
(a) To draw attention to the Holocaust.
(b) To ask Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
(c) To commemorate the end of WWI.
(d) To commemorate the end of WWII.

3. Why doesn't the international community prosecute individuals for their roles in exterminating millions of German Jews?
(a) The genocide convention was passed after the Nuremberg trials had ended.
(b) The international community focused on prosecuting military organizations and governments.
(c) The international community saw the issue as a national, not personal, crime.
(d) Nuremberg covered only cross-border crimes.

4. As information about Hitler's extermination of the Jews becomes more widespread, what is the reaction of the majority of people?
(a) They can't believe what they are hearing and seeing.
(b) They rush to recruiting offices to help fight against the Nazis.
(c) They don't care.
(d) They start massive relief efforts.

5. Turkey claims its actions are necessary to suppress _______________.
(a) Armenian birth rates.
(b) Armenian attempts to convert Turkey's Muslims to Christianity.
(c) Armenian revolt.
(d) A disease outbreak among the Armenians.

Short Answer Questions

1. Serbian forces executed over 7,000 Muslims in a _____________.

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

3. Upon what group does Lemkin take out his frustration over the United States' slowness to ratify the genocide treaty?

4. Some who are opposed to the United States' ratification of the genocide treaty think it would be used to target the United States for its treatment of __________________.

5. What term does the Allied condemnation apply to Turkey's persecution of the Armenians?

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