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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following issues are not among those that the United States feared would be used against them under the genocide treaty?
(a) Women's rights.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Jim Crow.
(d) Native American relocation.

2. Which U.S. government official does Lemkin try to approach regarding Hitler?
(a) President Roosevelt.
(b) Vice-President Truman.
(c) Secretary of War Henry Stimson
(d) Secretary of State Cordell Hull

3. When the United States sets up the Committee on Armenian Atrocities, what does the group not call for on behalf of the Armenians?
(a) Financial relief.
(b) Diplomatic intervention.
(c) Military intervention.
(d) Public awareness.

4. Why doesn't the international community prosecute individuals for their roles in exterminating millions of German Jews?
(a) The international community focused on prosecuting military organizations and governments.
(b) Nuremberg covered only cross-border crimes.
(c) The international community saw the issue as a national, not personal, crime.
(d) The genocide convention was passed after the Nuremberg trials had ended.

5. Key to the definition of genocide is that it is an attempt to wipe out an entire:
(a) Group.
(b) Race.
(c) Ethnicity.
(d) Religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens on February 11, 1986?

2. What is Raphael Lemkin's profession?

3. In October 1945, the Nuremberg indictments all mention ______________ in an international legal setting, although it is not be mentioned in the convictions.

4. On April 16, 1994, which American newspaper reports the deaths of 1,200 Tutsi (men, women, and children) in a church building?

5. The Serbians separate the men and boys in Srbrenica from the women and girls. What happens to the women and girls?

(see the answer key)

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