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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. Which president's administration comes under fire as more people now realize that the U.S. cannot pursue both an end to genocide and a policy of nonintervention in the Balkans?

2. Before Pol Pot dies in 1998, whom does he claim the deaths in Cambodia are the responsibility of?

3. What is the goal of NATO's bombing campaign?

4. After the U.S. embassy in London cables Washington with news of the Srbrenica atrocities, how do senior U.S. and UN officials treat the situation?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is an example of one of the many treaties President Jimmy Carter used his leverage to ratify instead of the genocide treaty?

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

4. What was the influence of the creation of the 1993 International War Crimes Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia upon the Rwandan genocide?

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

6. When Bosnian Serbs declared an independent Serb state, what measure did Western countries take in an attempt to stabilize the area?

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

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

9. What have the Kurds demanded since 1922?

10. After the Hutu government began eliminating the Tutsi, what did the U.S. focus on instead of intervening to stop the genocide?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

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

Compare and contrast the Rwandan and Yugoslavian war crimes courts. Use the text to support your statements.

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