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

2. Which ethnic group is responsible for the aggression against minorities after Yugoslavia's collapse?
(a) Serbs.
(b) Croats.
(c) Montenegrins.
(d) Bosnians.

3. On April 6, 1994, the jet of Rwanda's president is shot down with the president on board. What is the president's name?
(a) Cyprien Ntaryamira.
(b) Cyprien Bagosora.
(c) Juvenal Habyarimana.
(d) Habyarimana Cyprien.

4. 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?
(a) Maasai.
(b) Hutu.
(c) Tutsi.
(d) Zulu.

5. Who is Canadian Major General Romeo Dallaire?
(a) Commander of Canada's peacekeeping forces in Rwanda.
(b) Canada's ambassador to Rwanda.
(c) Commander of Rwanda's UN mission.
(d) Canada's Secretary of State.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Iraq's president appoint as secretary-general of the Northern Bureau?

2. In what year does the Genocide Convention Implementation Act become law?

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

4. 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?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What have the Kurds demanded since 1922?

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

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

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

7. What would have been the consequences of including, within the U.S. version of the genocide treaty, a restriction on its jurisdiction in cases where the U.S. might be called?

8. Four months after the war began in Bosnia, Helsinki Watch released a report on the situation. What details did the report contain?

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

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

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