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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which concentration camp does Reagan visit during his trip to Germany in response to people's complaints about his laying a wreath at a cemetery that includes the graves of nearly 50 Nazi SS officials?
(a) Bergen-Belsen.
(b) Auschwitz.
(c) Treblinka.
(d) Mauthausen.

2. Which country announces plans in June 1994 to send 2,500 troops to Rwanda in order to set up "safe zones" for Rwandans?
(a) France.
(b) Germany.
(c) Kenya.
(d) Somalia.

3. During the Srbrenica massacre, how many Muslims, mostly men and boys are killed?
(a) 7,000.
(b) 50,000.
(c) 5,000.
(d) 4,000.

4. After the Serbian forces leave Kosovo, Albanians expell 100,000 Serbs from Kosovo and killed __________.
(a) 1,500.
(b) 700,000.
(c) 5,000.
(d) 150,000.

5. General Clark, who is head of the NATO operation, wants to plan for a(n):
(a) Ground invasion.
(b) Reunification.
(c) Occupation.
(d) Amphibious assault.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hutu gunmen and soldiers, within hours of the president's death, execute virtually all of Rwanda's __________ politicians.

2. The Serbians separate the men and boys in Srbrenica from the women and girls. What happens to the women and girls?

3. Senator Proxmire continues to give a speech a day to the Senate on genocide. By the early __________, more Americans seem to be open to the idea of ratifying the genocide treaty.

4. When Serbia refuses to restore autonomy to Kosovo, what group rises up in opposition?

5. In the United States, Peter Galbraith, a staff member of the __________________, keep watch on the situation in Iraq.

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

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

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

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

6. From 1987-1988, Hussein's military killed how many Kurds as it destroyed thousands of Kurdish villages?

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

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

9. 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?

10. While Mladic's men were killing the men and boys living in Srbrenica, what was done with the women, children, and elderly?

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