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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. After his visit to Germany that includes a tour of a Nazi concentration camp, what does Reagan decide to push for?

2. On April 23, NATO officials target the _______________ of Milosevic and his associates.

3. Kurdish refugees begin pouring into ____________ and pouring out stories of their suffering to anyone who would listen.

4. Which ethnic group is responsible for the aggression against minorities after Yugoslavia's collapse?

5. What is the name of the Bosnian Serb commander who directs the Srbrenica genocide?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was significant about the UN war crimes tribunal's indictment of Milosevic for crimes against humanity?

3. What has turned out to be the drawback to not necessarily holding genocide proceedings in the victimized country?

4. 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?

5. 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?

6. Why was President Reagan's 1985 visit to Germany's Bitburg Cemetery to lay a wreath so controversial?

7. Four months after the war began in Bosnia, Helsinki Watch released a report on the situation. What details did the report contain?

8. What use did the U.S. fail to make of the satellites it had in space?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Using the text to support your statements, describe and analyze the shifts in power and position between Rwanda's Tutsi and Hutu in the three decades between Rwanda's independence from Belgium and the Arusha accords.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Describe and explain the nature and structure of the joint Hutu/Tutsi government that was the result of the 1993 Arusha Accords that ended Rwanda's first civil war.

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