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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. The Serbians separate the men and boys in Srbrenica from the women and girls. What happens to the women and girls?

2. President Clinton closes the Rwandan embassy in Washington and seizes its assets after:

3. On what date does NATO begin bombing Serb forces?

4. The Bosnian Serbs' actions against non-Serbs are euphemistically referred to as:

5. On April 16, 1994, which American newspaper reports the deaths of 1,200 Tutsi (men, women, and children) in a church building?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

6. In February, 1999, Western allies presented Milosevic with a "take-it-or-leave-it" proposal. What were the conditions of this proposal?

7. Why did Rwanda actually vote against setting up its war crimes tribunal?

8. What Rwandan atrocity caused the definition of genocide to be expanded upon?

9. 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?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Bosnian Serbs believed that in order to achieve lasting ethnic purity, they had to cut the ties between citizen and land. Using the text as backup, analyze and explain:

1) the historical and ideological reasons why the Serbs felt that ethnic purity had to be achieved in Bosnia rather than all ethnicities coexisting together peacefully.

2) the methods that the Serbs used to cut the ties between non-Serbian citizens and their land.

Essay Topic 2

In the mid-1980s, advocates for U.S. ratification of the genocide treaty argued that ratification would mean that the U.S. would now be able to file genocide charges against a country in the International Court of Justice. Using the text as backup, compare and contrast the United States' reaction to genocidal acts after it ratified the treaty with its reaction to them prior to ratification in order to decide whether ratification advocates' predictions had come true.

Essay Topic 3

Using the text as backup, investigate why, during the postwar period, the Holocaust was rarely discussed in general American society and glossed over in, if not omitted entirely from, books and films of the period. In particular, focus on the role American Jews had in encouraging this approach toward the Nazi atrocities against their people and why they did so.

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