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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the goal of NATO's bombing campaign?
(a) Milosevic's death.
(b) Autonomy for Bosnia.
(c) Autonomy for Kosovo.
(d) Milosevic's ouster.

2. 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) None.
(d) 15,000.

3. Serbia becomes disillusioned with ____________, its leader, and begins to demand an end to his rule.
(a) Ratko Mladic.
(b) Radovan Karadzic.
(c) Amor Masovic.
(d) Slobodan Milosevic.

4. What do Western diplomats suggest that Bosnia offer to its minorities?
(a) Autonomy.
(b) Human rights protections.
(c) Protection from genocide.
(d) Assistance seeking asylum in other countries.

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

6. General Clark, who is head of the NATO operation, wants to plan for a(n):
(a) Occupation.
(b) Amphibious assault.
(c) Ground invasion.
(d) Reunification.

7. Which 1998 law signed by President Clinton calls for an international tribunal to be established to try those who committed the Kurdish genocide?
(a) The Iraqi Genocide Act.
(b) The Kurdistan Liberation Act.
(c) The Kurdish Genocide Act.
(d) The Iraq Liberation Act.

8. What is the name of the UN official who releases a report on July 24, 1995, that says 7,000 Srbrenica residents have disappeared?
(a) Ban-Ki Moon.
(b) Tadeusz Mazowiecki.
(c) Lech Walesa.
(d) Vaclav Havel.

9. Senator Proxmire continues to give a speech a day to the Senate on genocide. By the early __________, more Americans seem to be open to the idea of ratifying the genocide treaty.
(a) 1990s.
(b) 1970s.
(c) 1960s.
(d) 1980s.

10. Kurdish refugees begin pouring into ____________ and pouring out stories of their suffering to anyone who would listen.
(a) Afghanistan.
(b) Yugoslavia.
(c) Turkey.
(d) Iran.

11. After his visit to Germany that includes a tour of a Nazi concentration camp, what does Reagan decide to push for?
(a) A national Holocaust memorial.
(b) The reunification of East and West Germany.
(c) The rounding up and extradition of fugitive Nazis.
(d) Ratification of the UN genocide convention.

12. In 1991, __________ begins to break up into smaller countries.
(a) The Ottoman Empire.
(b) Czechoslovakia.
(c) Yugoslavia.
(d) The Soviet Union.

13. Officials at The Hague use the ______________ as a foundation for the court at which Slobodan Milosevic is tried.
(a) American justice system.
(b) Serbian justice system.
(c) Nuremberg Trials.
(d) Danish justice system.

14. On which humanitarian crisis does the U.S. government focus in an attempt to deflect attention and public pressure away from Bosnia?
(a) Romania.
(b) Afghanistan.
(c) Somalia.
(d) Ethiopia.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Some European countries take exception to the _____________ within the U.S.'s ratification resolution.

3. This country frequently cuts down U.S. criticisms of other countries by saying "a country that had not even contracted to the genocide convention had no right to lecture the Soviet Union on human rights."

4. Which country announces plans in June 1994 to send 2,500 troops to Rwanda in order to set up "safe zones" for Rwandans?

5. When Serbia refuses to restore autonomy to Kosovo, what group rises up in opposition?

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