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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1990, after the U.S. Senate cuts off Iraq's financial assistance and credit line, what happened?

2. In 100 days, some ___________ Tutsi, as well as the Hutu politicians, are murdered.

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

4. What is the name of the UN official who releases a report on July 24, 1995, that says 7,000 Srbrenica residents have disappeared?

5. After the Serbian forces leave Kosovo, Albanians expell 100,000 Serbs from Kosovo and killed __________.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. When Yugoslavia began to break up into smaller countries in 1991, what dilemma was Bosnia thrown into?

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Using the text to support your arguments, analyze and explain the reasons why government officials and journalists in Allied countries dismissed intelligence of the Holocaust as unsubstantiated and untrustworthy.

Essay Topic 2

Explain America's role in Southeast Asia during the 1960s and demonstrate why this role made Americans reluctant to get involved in the Cambodian genocide. Support your arguments from the text.

Essay Topic 3

Analyze, explain, and demonstrate, supporting your arguments from the text, how, in each of the cases of genocide that Power examines, both physical and cultural destruction were used to demolish and eradicate racial, ethnic, and political groups.

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