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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. When the Iraqi government orders Kurds to move into collective centers, any Kurd who remains in a prohibited area is:
2. President Clinton closes the Rwandan embassy in Washington and seizes its assets after:
3. Who is Canadian Major General Romeo Dallaire?
4. After the president's plane is shot down, Colonel Theoneste Bagosora and the Rwandan army take control of the country. What Rwandan tribe does Bagosora belong to?
5. When Milosevic arrives at the War Crimes Tribunal, he becomes the _______ Yugoslav war crimes suspect behind UN bars.
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. From 1987-1988, Hussein's military killed how many Kurds as it destroyed thousands of Kurdish villages?
3. What consequence did the State Department threaten against the Serbian soldiers?
4. Why was the Arusha agreement unpopular with Hutu extremists?
5. Why was President Reagan's 1985 visit to Germany's Bitburg Cemetery to lay a wreath so controversial?
6. In the middle of July 1995, what did journalists stationed in the Balkan region begin reporting?
7. What use did the U.S. fail to make of the satellites it had in space?
8. What was significant about the UN war crimes tribunal's indictment of Milosevic for crimes against humanity?
9. What is an example of one of the many treaties President Jimmy Carter used his leverage to ratify instead of the genocide treaty?
10. While Mladic's men were killing the men and boys living in Srbrenica, what was done with the women, children, and elderly?
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
Using the text to support your arguments, analyze Power's statement on page 514 about what the United States should do when it becomes aware of genocide and explain, in light of the reaction throughout the 20th century of genocide perpetrators to the measures countries took against them, whether or not, and why, you believe this level of action on the part of the United States will have any influence on future instances of genocide.
Essay Topic 3
Using the text to support your arguments, analyze and explain why the Iraqi brutality against the Kurds was viewed by U.S. policymakers and journalists as an understandable means of suppressing rebellion or as a result of the Iraq-Iran war.
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