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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. On April 16, 1994, which American newspaper reports the deaths of 1,200 Tutsi (men, women, and children) in a church building?
2. What do Western diplomats suggest that Bosnia offer to its minorities?
3. What happens on February 11, 1986?
4. The town of Halabja becomes known as the Kurdish ____________.
5. In 1994, the United States set aside half a million dollars to collect information and evidence on which genocide?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What consequence did the State Department threaten against the Serbian soldiers?
3. Within hours of President Habyarimana's death, whom did armed Hutus begin targeting?
4. Why was President Reagan's 1985 visit to Germany's Bitburg Cemetery to lay a wreath so controversial?
5. Why did the U.S. turn a blind eye to Iraqi brutality against the Kurds?
6. What were the conditions under which Milosevic was delivered to The Hague for his trial?
7. What is an example of one of the many treaties President Jimmy Carter used his leverage to ratify instead of the genocide treaty?
8. In February, 1999, Western allies presented Milosevic with a "take-it-or-leave-it" proposal. What were the conditions of this proposal?
9. When Kurdish leaders decided to side with Iran in the Iraq-Iran war, what was the reaction of the Iraqi military?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Compare and contrast the United States' initial response to each genocide covered in A Problem from Hell. Use the text to support your statements.
Essay Topic 3
Analyze and explain why, as he worked to lobby for his genocide law, Lemkin had the advantage of a socio-political context that was receptive to the idea of international laws on crimes against humanity, including genocide. Use the book to support your arguments.
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