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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In response to demands for his rule to end, Serbia's leader brutalizes what minority in Kosovo?
(a) Albanians.
(b) Bosnians.
(c) Macedonians.
(d) Croats.

2. On what date does NATO begin bombing Serb forces?
(a) August 30, 1995.
(b) July 24, 1995.
(c) July 20, 1995.
(d) July 27, 1995.

3. 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 Iraq Liberation Act.
(b) The Kurdish Genocide Act.
(c) The Iraqi Genocide Act.
(d) The Kurdistan Liberation Act.

4. 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) 1970s.
(b) 1960s.
(c) 1980s.
(d) 1990s.

5. In the United States, Peter Galbraith, a staff member of the __________________, keep watch on the situation in Iraq.
(a) House Foreign Relations Committee.
(b) Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
(c) Senate Finance Committee.
(d) Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Short Answer Questions

1. Major General Dallaire is stationed in Rwanda to help make sure what power-sharing agreement that, until the downing of the presidential plane held civil war at bay, is observed?

2. When the safe area of Zepa is in danger from the Serbs, the Allies state they would only react with air power under what circumstance?

3. President Clinton closes the Rwandan embassy in Washington and seizes its assets after:

4. The former Yugoslavia presents no obvious threat to:

5. The Bosnian Serbs' actions against non-Serbs are euphemistically referred to as:

Short Essay Questions

1. What has turned out to be the drawback to not necessarily holding genocide proceedings in the victimized country?

2. What were the terms of the agreement that Milosevic signed on June 3, 1999, after his surrender?

3. What was the influence of the creation of the 1993 International War Crimes Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia upon the Rwandan genocide?

4. What consequence did the State Department threaten against the Serbian soldiers?

5. Why was the Arusha agreement unpopular with Hutu extremists?

6. Why did the U.S. turn a blind eye to Iraqi brutality against the Kurds?

7. When Kurdish leaders decided to side with Iran in the Iraq-Iran war, what was the reaction of the Iraqi military?

8. In February, 1999, Western allies presented Milosevic with a "take-it-or-leave-it" proposal. What were the conditions of this proposal?

9. Within hours of President Habyarimana's death, whom did armed Hutus begin targeting?

10. From 1987-1988, Hussein's military killed how many Kurds as it destroyed thousands of Kurdish villages?

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