Name: ______________________________________
INT105
The Fog of War: Film Companion Questions
Due Friday, November 6, 2015
Answer the following questions in complete sentences. Please use your best handwriting.
· What will any military commander who is honest with himself admit?
· If you make one mistake with nuclear weapons what will occur?
· What does McNamara consider his personal rule?
· What is lesson #1?
· What “emotion” does McNamara say Thompson was exhibiting towards Khrushchev?
· What is Lesson #2?
· What does McNamara believe got the United States out of nuclear war?
· What danger exists today?
· What will destroy nations?
· What celestial body did Kennedy’s advisors believe the USSR would test nuclear weapons behind?
· What is Lesson #3?
· What is Lesson #4?
· How many Japanese people were burned to death in one night in March 1945?
· What is Lesson #5?
· What is Lesson #6?
· What halted the “pull out” of the United States personnel in Vietnam?
· What is Lesson #7?
· What did President Johnson believe about the North Vietnamese after the August “attacks?”
· What operation was introduced in Vietnam that dropped 2 to 3 times as many bombs as were dropped on Western Europe in all of WWII?
· What did McNamara say was not primarily a military problem?
· What was the prerequisite to winning the hearts and minds of the people of South Vietnam?
· What does President Johnson say America declared war on?
· What did the United States’s government not do in Vietnam that it had done in the Cuban Missile Crisis that lead to total misunderstanding?
· What type of war did the Vietnamese perceive they were fighting despite American views that it was just an element of the Cold War?
· What is Lesson #8?
· What is Lesson #9?
· What is Lesson #10?
· Who does McNamara point to as responsible for war?
· What was Lesson #11?
· What is the “fog of war?”
Name: ______________________________________
INT105
Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire (2004): Film Companion Questions
Due Friday, November 6, 2015
Answer the following questions in complete sentences. Please use your best handwriting.
· What does Canadian General Roméo Dallaire saying coming back to Rwanda seems like?
· Who were Dallaire and the peacekeepers abandoned by?
· How many Rwandans were slaughtered in 100 days?
· When was Dallaire able to fall asleep in Rwanda?
· What were Dallaire’s initial feelings about going into Rwanda?
· How long had Rwanda been at war when the UN arrived?
· What ethnic groups made up the two sides of the war?
· When Dallaire responded intelligently what did the UN do?
· What did the raising of the UN flag supposedly symbolize?
· What type of propaganda were the Hutu extremists spreading on the radio?
· What did the Hutu grow up learning?
· What country created the problem in Rwanda through colonization?
· How many Tutsis were killed in 1959 by the Hutus?
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1. Name: ______________________________________
INT105
The Fog of War: Film Companion Questions
Due Friday, November 6, 2015
Answer the following questions in complete sentences. Please
use your best handwriting.
· What will any military commander who is honest with himself
admit?
· If you make one mistake with nuclear weapons what will
occur?
· What does McNamara consider his personal rule?
· What is lesson #1?
· What “emotion” does McNamara say Thompson was exhibiting
towards Khrushchev?
· What is Lesson #2?
· What does McNamara believe got the United States out of
nuclear war?
· What danger exists today?
2. · What will destroy nations?
· What celestial body did Kennedy’s advisors believe the USSR
would test nuclear weapons behind?
· What is Lesson #3?
· What is Lesson #4?
· How many Japanese people were burned to death in one night
in March 1945?
· What is Lesson #5?
· What is Lesson #6?
· What halted the “pull out” of the United States personnel in
Vietnam?
· What is Lesson #7?
· What did President Johnson believe about the North
Vietnamese after the August “attacks?”
3. · What operation was introduced in Vietnam that dropped 2 to 3
times as many bombs as were dropped on Western Europe in all
of WWII?
· What did McNamara say was not primarily a military
problem?
· What was the prerequisite to winning the hearts and minds of
the people of South Vietnam?
· What does President Johnson say America declared war on?
· What did the United States’s government not do in Vietnam
that it had done in the Cuban Missile Crisis that lead to total
misunderstanding?
· What type of war did the Vietnamese perceive they were
fighting despite American views that it was just an element of
the Cold War?
· What is Lesson #8?
· What is Lesson #9?
· What is Lesson #10?
· Who does McNamara point to as responsible for war?
4. · What was Lesson #11?
· What is the “fog of war?”
Name: ______________________________________
INT105
Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire
(2004): Film Companion Questions
Due Friday, November 6, 2015
Answer the following questions in complete sentences. Please
use your best handwriting.
· What does Canadian General Roméo Dallaire saying coming
back to Rwanda seems like?
· Who were Dallaire and the peacekeepers abandoned by?
· How many Rwandans were slaughtered in 100 days?
· When was Dallaire able to fall asleep in Rwanda?
· What were Dallaire’s initial feelings about going into
Rwanda?
· How long had Rwanda been at war when the UN arrived?
5. · What ethnic groups made up the two sides of the war?
· When Dallaire responded intelligently what did the UN do?
· What did the raising of the UN flag supposedly symbolize?
· What type of propaganda were the Hutu extremists spreading
on the radio?
· What did the Hutu grow up learning?
· What country created the problem in Rwanda through
colonization?
· How many Tutsis were killed in 1959 by the Hutus?
· Who encouraged the ethic divide and hatred?
· What state technically should not have been in on the
peacekeeping mission?
· What states made up the UN force other than Canada and
Belgium?
· How young were some of the Rwandan soldiers?
6. · What was the rebel general’s name?
· What state legitimized and spoke on behalf of the genocidal
Rwandan government all over the world?
· Why did the UN refuse to allow the use of force and action?
· What happened on April 6, 1994?
· Who was this extremely well planned and executed attack
aimed at?
· What did Colonel Théoneste Bayosora, Head of the Rwandan
Ministry of Defense, have the power and authority to do?
· What church could have stopped the genocide years before the
war even started?
· What was Dallaire’s aim?
· At one point how many people were living in the UN protected
Amahoro Stadium?
· Why were people dying in the stadium?
7. · Why did Dallaire feel he needed to resign from the mission?
· Why did Dallaire obey the orders?
· What was Dallaire’s ultimate failure?
