"A Problem From Hell:" America and the Age of Genocide Test | Final Test - Hard

Samantha Power
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 129 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

"A Problem From Hell:" America and the Age of Genocide Test | Final Test - Hard

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

2. Serbia becomes disillusioned with ____________, its leader, and begins to demand an end to his rule.

3. The Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), which responds with force to the Hutu's political assassinations, thereby reigniting a civil war that had been smoldering, belongs to which Rwandan tribe?

4. Which substance is not used by Iraqi forces in the attack on Halabja?

5. Policymakers in favor of ratification argue not only for the moral imperatives but also that non-ratification is:

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Although Rwanda held one of the seats on the UN Security Council, what measures that the Council could have taken against the Hutus' genocide were never suggested?

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

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

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

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

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

8. In the middle of July 1995, what did journalists stationed in the Balkan region begin reporting?

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

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

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 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 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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