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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 February 18, 1986:
2. In 1994, what measure does the UN Security Council take against the Serbs?
3. 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?
4. In the three days it takes for UN soldiers to evacuate approximately 4,000 foreigners from Rwanda, how many Rwandans are killed?
5. Out of an overall population of 18 million Iraqis, how many are "problematic" (according to the government) Kurds?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. While Mladic's men were killing the men and boys living in Srbrenica, what was done with the women, children, and elderly?
3. When Yugoslavia began to break up into smaller countries in 1991, what dilemma was Bosnia thrown into?
4. What was the influence of the creation of the 1993 International War Crimes Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia upon the Rwandan genocide?
5. 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?
6. What have the Kurds demanded since 1922?
7. What has turned out to be the drawback to not necessarily holding genocide proceedings in the victimized country?
8. Why did the U.S. turn a blind eye to Iraqi brutality against the Kurds?
9. What Rwandan atrocity caused the definition of genocide to be expanded upon?
10. Within hours of President Habyarimana's death, whom did armed Hutus begin targeting?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Analyze and explain the impact the court established by the UN to try Yugoslavians responsible for the genocide in the Balkans had upon the court established to try the perpetrators of the Rwandan genocide.
Essay Topic 2
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.
Essay Topic 3
When the term "genocide" was coined, some welcomed it as a way to motivate any who used it to stand against the atrocities it represented; others argued that a word was just a word, and that using this word would not change official stances. Compare and contrast how the world reacted to the various acts of genocide expounded upon in A Problem from Hell's as you develop an analysis that explains which opinion history has, so far, proven to be correct.
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