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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

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) Slavery.
(b) Jim Crow.
(c) Women's rights.
(d) Native American relocation.

2. In what year does the Armenian genocide, which kills nearly 1 million people, take place?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1916.
(c) 1918.
(d) 1905.

3. As of the time the genocide treaty became international law, what country had not yet ratified it?
(a) Australia.
(b) The United States.
(c) Bulgaria.
(d) Saudi Arabia.

4. What city does the Khmer Rouge seize in 1975 after a five-year civil war and defeat of the incumbent, American-backed government?
(a) Penh Phnom.
(b) My Lai.
(c) Phnom Penh.
(d) Siem Reap.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which government in the civil war that ended with the Khmer Rouge's coup does the United States back because they see its leader as more pro-American?

2. Some who are opposed to the United States' ratification of the genocide treaty think it would be used to target the United States for its treatment of __________________.

3. The Allies set up an international military tribunal in ________________ to prosecute Nazi war criminals.

4. After Lemkin's death, William Proxmire, a senator from ________________, takes up the movement to have the genocide convention ratified in the U.S.

5. Henry Morgenthau, a U.S. ambassador, contests America's lack of action in opposing the Armenian genocide. To which country is Morgenthau assigned?

(see the answer key)

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