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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. People have often argued that the United States don't know what is happening in countries where ___________ is occurring.
(a) Genocide.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Civil war.
(d) Poverty.

2. Western journalists, including _______________, still in the country describe Khmer Rouge brutality and report accounts from refugees.
(a) Elizabeth Becker.
(b) Peter Jennings.
(c) Walter Cronkite.
(d) Samantha Moore.

3. There has been __________ public recognition of the Allies' inaction with regard to the Holocaust.
(a) No.
(b) A great deal of.
(c) Very little.
(d) Some.

4. What ethnicity is Raphael Lemkin?
(a) Armenian.
(b) Polish Jew.
(c) Russian Jew.
(d) German Catholic.

5. What proportion of United Nations member states must ratify a measure before it becomes international law?
(a) Two-thirds.
(b) Three-quarters.
(c) Three-fifths.
(d) One-third.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the United States sets up the Committee on Armenian Atrocities, what does the group not call for on behalf of the Armenians?

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

3. The genocide convention receives U.S. support at the UN and many are ____________ its domestic ratification.

4. Which U.S. government official does Lemkin try to approach regarding Hitler?

5. In America, according to Power, the struggle to stop genocide is often determined by:

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Nuremberg's significance to the quest for an international law against genocide?

2. What was the definition of genocide that was adopted by the UN?

3. What does Powers say motivates U.S. policymakers to keep the U.S. uninvolved in situations when genocide occurs?

4. Which specific instance of genocide has American society committed itself to remembering and preventing a repetition of, which makes their slowness to react when genocide occurs disturbing to say the least?

5. Why did the Khmer Rouge especially target people who wore glasses?

6. Why was Morgenthau unable to do more about the Armenians than send cables to Washington?

7. 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?

8. In a cable to Washington, what term did Ambassador Henry Morgenthau use to condemn the actions of the Turkish government against the Armenians?

9. What was the scope of the Nuremberg trials limited to as to what the tribunal was to punish?

10. In what way did Power see U.S. policymakers handle the genocide in Bosnia?

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