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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 former Yugoslavia presents no obvious threat to:

2. The Rwandan and Yugoslavian trials also prove that the ethnic violence and genocide was:

3. By November 2001, how many of the fifty-three Rwandan defendants in U.S. custody have been convicted of genocide?

4. In response to demands for his rule to end, Serbia's leader brutalizes what minority in Kosovo?

5. On ______ the UN war crimes tribunal indicts Milosevic for crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

5. What were the conditions under which Milosevic was delivered to The Hague for his trial?

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

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

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

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

10. Why was the Arusha agreement unpopular with Hutu extremists?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Demonstrate how the Cambodian genocide illustrates the manner in which internal politics in the United States affect U.S. actions. Support your arguments from the text.

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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