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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what year does President Reagan lay a wreath at Germany's Bitburg Cemetery, which holds the graves of 49 Nazi SS officials?
(a) 1984.
(b) 1983.
(c) 1985.
(d) 1986.

3. Hutu gunmen and soldiers, within hours of the president's death, execute virtually all of Rwanda's __________ politicians.
(a) Liberal.
(b) Moderate.
(c) Independent.
(d) Conservative.

4. The U.S. and Western countries believe the Serbs will try to ______________ Srbrenica, based on their intelligence.
(a) Neutralize.
(b) Avoid.
(c) Destroy.
(d) Besiege.

5. President Clinton closes the Rwandan embassy in Washington and seizes its assets after:
(a) The Hutu gains control over most of Rwanda.
(b) Somalia invades Rwanda.
(c) The RPF gains control over most of Rwanda.
(d) Rwanda closes the U.S. embassy in Kigali.

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

7. The Serbians separate the men and boys in Srbrenica from the women and girls. What happens to the women and girls?
(a) They are deported.
(b) They are killed.
(c) They are left alone.
(d) They are raped.

8. Which human rights group had been keeping a close eye on the Yugoslavian situation since the early-1990s?
(a) Amnesty International.
(b) Helsinki Watch.
(c) UNICEF.
(d) Human Rights Watch.

9. Before Pol Pot dies in 1998, whom does he claim the deaths in Cambodia are the responsibility of?
(a) The Americans.
(b) The Burmese.
(c) The Vietnamese.
(d) The Laotians.

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

11. The Rwandan and Yugoslavian trials also prove that the ethnic violence and genocide was:
(a) An accident.
(b) Planned.
(c) Spontaneous.
(d) A myth.

12. 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 an international humanitarian crisis.
(c) As a military situation.
(d) As an act of war.

13. How many chemical attacks take place against the Kurds throughout Iraq?
(a) At least forty.
(b) Over one hundred.
(c) More than fifty.
(d) Under twenty.

14. Which substance is not used by Iraqi forces in the attack on Halabja?
(a) Ricin.
(b) Mustard gas.
(c) Tabun.
(d) Sarin.

15. In 1994, the United States set aside half a million dollars to collect information and evidence on which genocide?
(a) The Khmer Rouge atrocities.
(b) The Armenian genocide.
(c) The Holocaust.
(d) The Rwandan genocide.

Short Answer Questions

1. On April 16, 1994, which American newspaper reports the deaths of 1,200 Tutsi (men, women, and children) in a church building?

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

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

4. What is the name of the Bosnian Serb commander who directs the Srbrenica genocide?

5. Who is Canadian Major General Romeo Dallaire?

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