Road to Genocide
Rwanda 1994
IB Command Terms
Senior Year Survival
Movies, Music & Media
Random Knowledge
100

This predominantly Tutsi organization invaded Rwanda from Uganda on October 1, 1990.

Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF)

100

The April 6, 1994 destruction of this president's plane became the immediate catalyst for the genocide.

Juvénal Habyarimana

100

This command term asks you to give a detailed account, including reasons or causes.

Explain

100

This Latin phrase refers to a graduating student who has earned the highest academic ranking in their class.

Valedictorian

100

This rapper's real name is Aubrey Graham.

Drake

100

This is the world's largest ocean.

Pacific Ocean

200

Belgian colonial policies helped institutionalize divisions between these two major groups in Rwanda.

Hutu and Tutsi

200

This extremist militia became one of the principal groups carrying out mass killings during the genocide.

Interahamwe

200

This command term asks you to break down an issue in order to bring out its essential elements or structure.

Analyze

200

Students complete this federal form when applying for financial aid for college.

FAFSA

200

This actor portrays Paul Atreides in the recent Dune films.

Timothée Chalamet

200

This number is represented by the Roman numeral XL.

40

300

This political ideology promoted extreme Hutu nationalism and portrayed Tutsi as a threat to Rwanda.

Hutu Power Movement

300

This radio station broadcast extremist propaganda and helped encourage violence against Tutsi during the genocide.

RTLM (Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines)

300

This command term asks you to consider an argument or concept in a way that uncovers assumptions and interrelationships.

Examine

300

This nonprofit organization administers the SAT as well as AP examinations.

College Board

300

This singer released the albums American Teen and Free Spirit.

Khalid

300

This country gifted the Statue of Liberty to the United States.

France

400

Signed in 1993, these agreements attempted to end the civil war through power sharing and the integration of opposing forces.

Arusha Accords

400

This UN peacekeeping mission was already operating in Rwanda when the genocide began.

UNAMIR

400

This command term requires you to make an appraisal by weighing the strengths and limitations of an argument or concept.

Evaluate

400

This term describes a college admission decision that allows a student to enroll without requiring them to attend.

Early Action

400

This actor portrayed Walter White for five seasons of Breaking Bad.

Bryan Cranston

400

This blood type is commonly known as the universal donor for red blood cells.

O negative

500

Extremist propaganda frequently used this Kinyarwanda word meaning "cockroaches" to dehumanize Tutsi.

Inyenzi

500

These two locations, both associated with churches, were among the sites of major massacres examined in our study of the genocide.

Nyarubuye and Kibuye

500

This command term asks you to consider the merits or otherwise of an argument or concept, with opinions and conclusions supported by appropriate evidence.

Discuss

500

This term describes the condition in which a college accepts a student but delays the final admission decision until a later date.

Deferred

500

Christopher Nolan directed this 2010 film in which characters enter multiple levels of dreams.

Inception

500

This planet has the shortest day of any planet in our solar system, rotating once in roughly 10 hours.

Jupiter