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

2. From whom does the most detailed evidence of the atrocities come?
(a) Three Muslim women who escape.
(b) Journalists who are stationed in the region.
(c) The area's UN special reporter for human rights.
(d) Three Muslim men who survive a massacre.

3. Which ethnic group is responsible for the aggression against minorities after Yugoslavia's collapse?
(a) Croats.
(b) Serbs.
(c) Montenegrins.
(d) Bosnians.

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

5. On April 16, 1994, which American newspaper reports the deaths of 1,200 Tutsi (men, women, and children) in a church building?
(a) The Chicago Tribune.
(b) USA Today.
(c) The Washington Post.
(d) The New York Times.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Milosevic arrives at the War Crimes Tribunal, he becomes the _______ Yugoslav war crimes suspect behind UN bars.

2. In what year does President Reagan lay a wreath at Germany's Bitburg Cemetery, which holds the graves of 49 Nazi SS officials?

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

4. During the Srbrenica massacre, how many Muslims, mostly men and boys are killed?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Four months after the war began in Bosnia, Helsinki Watch released a report on the situation. What details did the report contain?

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

4. While Mladic's men were killing the men and boys living in Srbrenica, what was done with the women, children, and elderly?

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

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

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

9. What have the Kurds demanded since 1922?

10. In the middle of July 1995, what did journalists stationed in the Balkan region begin reporting?

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