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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. When Milosevic arrives at the War Crimes Tribunal, he becomes the _______ Yugoslav war crimes suspect behind UN bars.
(a) 40th.
(b) 1st.
(c) 15th.
(d) 39th.

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

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

4. What happens on February 11, 1986?
(a) The U.S. Holocaust Museum was opened to the public.
(b) The U.S. version of the genocide treaty was rejected in the Senate.
(c) President Reagan nearly died in an assassination attempt.
(d) The U.S. version of the genocide treaty went up for a full Senate vote.

5. Which president's administration comes under fire as more people now realize that the U.S. cannot pursue both an end to genocide and a policy of nonintervention in the Balkans?
(a) George H.W. Bush.
(b) Al Gore.
(c) Bill Clinton.
(d) George W. Bush.

Short Answer Questions

1. The first wave of calls for an international war crimes tribunal in the 1990s comes after:

2. The UN member states begin setting up a _____________ International Criminal Court (ICC).

3. In response to the bombing, Serbian forces expell 1.3 million Kosovars, _____________ of which flee to Macedonia and Albania.

4. On April 23, NATO officials target the _______________ of Milosevic and his associates.

5. The Rwandan and Yugoslavian trials also prove that the ethnic violence and genocide was:

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why did Rwanda actually vote against setting up its war crimes tribunal?

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

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

7. 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?

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

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

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

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