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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. By 1976, nearly ___________ Cambodians are dead.
(a) 500,000.
(b) 50,000.
(c) 250,000.
(d) 1,000,000.
2. Ultimately, Lemkin's fight is for an international law on ________________.
(a) Financial standards.
(b) Genocide.
(c) War crimes.
(d) Legal standards.
3. In America, according to Power, the struggle to stop genocide is often determined by:
(a) International politics.
(b) Special interests and civil rights groups.
(c) Lobbyists.
(d) Domestic politics.
4. 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 __________________.
(a) Native Americans and African Americans.
(b) Native Americans and Japanese Americans.
(c) African Americans and Japanese Americans.
(d) Native Americans.
5. Which country tries unsuccessfully to charge Turkish leaders with criminal behavior in the aftermath of the Armenian genocide?
(a) Russia.
(b) United States.
(c) France.
(d) Britain.
Short Answer Questions
1. For what event is Lemkin invited to Spain to read his paper?
2. What bad news does Zygielbojm receive in 1943?
3. Out of a population of 7 million souls, approximately how many people does the Khmer Rouge kill in its three-and-a-half-year rule?
4. President Carter makes the first public condemnation of the Khmer Rouge in ____1978.
5. What happens on Dec. 11, 1946?
Short Essay Questions
1. After Lemkin's death, William Proxmire, a senator from Wisconsin, took up the movement to have the genocide convention ratified in the U.S. What was the date of Senator Proxmire's first genocide speech?
2. Which senator from South Dakota believed that genocide was taking place in Cambodia and wanted the United States to contribute military forces to make it stop?
3. What does the author say is the first reason the United States has been slow to recognize and act when genocide has occurred?
4. What was Nuremberg's significance to the quest for an international law against genocide?
5. In a cable to Washington, what term did Ambassador Henry Morgenthau use to condemn the actions of the Turkish government against the Armenians?
6. What kind of law did Raphael Lemkin propose?
7. When the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was proposed by the United States as an international law instead of the UN genocide treaty, what was Raphael Lemkin's reaction?
8. As the Khmer Rouge began its genocidal campaign, the U.S. government issued warnings that a bloodbath might happen in the region. What was many Americans' response to the warnings?
9. What does Powers say motivates U.S. policymakers to keep the U.S. uninvolved in situations when genocide occurs?
10. How do we know that the United States and British governments had a great deal of intelligence on Hitler's extermination of Jews that belied their feigned ignorance of the atrocities?
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