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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. 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 W. Bush.
(b) Bill Clinton.
(c) George H.W. Bush.
(d) Al Gore.

2. Which senator begins denouncing Yugoslavia's human rights issues in the 1980s?
(a) Ted Kennedy.
(b) Strom Thurmond.
(c) Hillary Clinton.
(d) Bob Dole.

3. During the Srbrenica massacre, how many Muslims, mostly men and boys are killed?
(a) 5,000.
(b) 50,000.
(c) 7,000.
(d) 4,000.

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

5. 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?
(a) If Zepa was attacked.
(b) If Gorazde was attacked.
(c) If Macedonia was attacked.
(d) If UN troops were attacked.

Short Answer Questions

1. In response to demands for his rule to end, Serbia's leader brutalizes what minority in Kosovo?

2. On April 6, 1994, the jet of Rwanda's president is shot down with the president on board. What is the president's name?

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

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

5. What happens on February 11, 1986?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

8. What was the human and geographic toll of the Serbs' genocide against the Bosnians, in terms of people killed, people displaced, and partitioning of Bosnian territory?

9. What use did the U.S. fail to make of the satellites it had in space?

10. Although President Reagan stated that he would endorse the genocide convention, what first step was he, as well as his administration, seemingly reluctant to take?

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