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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 do Western diplomats suggest that Bosnia offer to its minorities?
2. What happens on February 11, 1986?
3. When Serbia refuses to restore autonomy to Kosovo, what group rises up in opposition?
4. During the Srbrenica massacre, how many Muslims, mostly men and boys are killed?
5. The Serbians separate the men and boys in Srbrenica from the women and girls. What happens to the women and girls?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What was the influence of the creation of the 1993 International War Crimes Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia upon the Rwandan genocide?
3. Why did Rwanda actually vote against setting up its war crimes tribunal?
4. Why did the U.S. turn a blind eye to Iraqi brutality against the Kurds?
5. What have the Kurds demanded since 1922?
6. When Bosnian Serbs declared an independent Serb state, what measure did Western countries take in an attempt to stabilize the area?
7. What has turned out to be the drawback to not necessarily holding genocide proceedings in the victimized country?
8. What use did the U.S. fail to make of the satellites it had in space?
9. 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?
10. What is an example of one of the many treaties President Jimmy Carter used his leverage to ratify instead of the genocide treaty?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explain America's role in Southeast Asia during the 1960s and demonstrate why this role made Americans reluctant to get involved in the Cambodian genocide. Support your arguments from the text.
Essay Topic 2
When World War I ended, Britain, France, and Russia wanted to hold officials in Germany, Austria, and Turkey responsible for violations of law and crimes of humanity. For Turkey, this action would have tried their officials for the atrocities committed upon the Armenians. Explain and demonstrate, backing your arguments from the text, why the United States refused to go along with the rest of the Allies' desires.
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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