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

2. On April 23, NATO officials target the _______________ of Milosevic and his associates.
(a) Finances and businesses.
(b) Businesses and families.
(c) Personal property and businesses.
(d) Families and friends.

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

4. Policymakers in favor of ratification argue not only for the moral imperatives but also that non-ratification is:
(a) Damaging the UN's interests and status.
(b) Damaging American interests and status.
(c) Enhancing Soviet interests and status.
(d) Enhancing and facilitating the spread of Communism.

5. Which concentration camp does Reagan visit during his trip to Germany in response to people's complaints about his laying a wreath at a cemetery that includes the graves of nearly 50 Nazi SS officials?
(a) Treblinka.
(b) Auschwitz.
(c) Bergen-Belsen.
(d) Mauthausen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kurdish refugees begin pouring into ____________ and pouring out stories of their suffering to anyone who would listen.

2. Which substance is not used by Iraqi forces in the attack on Halabja?

3. In July 1995, Serb forces invade Srbrenica, which is considered a:

4. One year after the U.S. ratifies the genocide convention, who is the president of Iraq?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What Rwandan atrocity caused the definition of genocide to be expanded upon?

3. When Bosnian Serbs declared an independent Serb state, what measure did Western countries take in an attempt to stabilize the area?

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

5. What was significant about the UN war crimes tribunal's indictment of Milosevic for crimes against humanity?

6. After the Hutu government began eliminating the Tutsi, what did the U.S. focus on instead of intervening to stop the genocide?

7. What were the conditions under which Milosevic was delivered to The Hague for his trial?

8. Although Rwanda held one of the seats on the UN Security Council, what measures that the Council could have taken against the Hutus' genocide were never suggested?

9. Why was President Reagan's 1985 visit to Germany's Bitburg Cemetery to lay a wreath so controversial?

10. What would have been the consequences of including, within the U.S. version of the genocide treaty, a restriction on its jurisdiction in cases where the U.S. might be called?

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