Humanitarian Intervention

When governments talk about "humanitarian intervention", they mean the use of military forces to provide help

• True

• False

The United States decides whether or not to provide humanitarian aid to a country based only on our own national interests and security.

• True

• False

The major limitations of the United Nations being able to provide humanitarian intervention include...(check all that apply)

• it's difficult for so many countries to agree

• they have no enforcement power

• there is no United Nations military

• the Security Council's veto power

The Kosovo crisis in 1999 was between which two groups? (select two)

• Kurdish tribes of Central Asia

• Kosovo Liberation Army (made up of ethnic Albanians)

• Serbian Liberation Army (made up of Serbian nationalists)

• The government of Slobodan Milosevic

In 1999, which entity proposed sending in peacekeeping troops into Kosovo?

• NATO

• United Nations

• the United States

• Russia