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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 Bosnian Serbs' actions against non-Serbs are euphemistically referred to as:
2. The former Yugoslavia presents no obvious threat to:
3. What form of intervention do the United States, Europe, and the United Nations not deploy in Bosnia until it is too late?
4. In 1994, the United States set aside half a million dollars to collect information and evidence on which genocide?
5. 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?
Short Essay Questions
1. After the Hutu government began eliminating the Tutsi, what did the U.S. focus on instead of intervening to stop the genocide?
2. What have the Kurds demanded since 1922?
3. 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?
4. When Yugoslavia began to break up into smaller countries in 1991, what dilemma was Bosnia thrown into?
5. In February, 1999, Western allies presented Milosevic with a "take-it-or-leave-it" proposal. What were the conditions of this proposal?
6. In the middle of July 1995, what did journalists stationed in the Balkan region begin reporting?
7. What Rwandan atrocity caused the definition of genocide to be expanded upon?
8. What is an example of one of the many treaties President Jimmy Carter used his leverage to ratify instead of the genocide treaty?
9. From 1987-1988, Hussein's military killed how many Kurds as it destroyed thousands of Kurdish villages?
10. When Bosnian Serbs declared an independent Serb state, what measure did Western countries take in an attempt to stabilize the area?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Using examples from the text, analyze and explain the causes of the "Southeast Asia fatigue" that permeated most American newsrooms during the Khmer Rouge genocide.
Essay Topic 3
Analyze, explain, and demonstrate, supporting your arguments from the text, how, in each of the cases of genocide that Power examines, both physical and cultural destruction were used to demolish and eradicate racial, ethnic, and political groups.
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