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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. What issue plagues the genocide convention?
(a) Political ideologies.
(b) State sovereignty.
(c) International unity.
(d) State prejudices against certain ethnic groups.

2. 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) The genocide convention was passed after the Nuremberg trials had ended.
(c) Nuremberg covered only cross-border crimes.
(d) The international community saw the issue as a national, not personal, crime.

3. The United States has done ______________ in actual situations of crimes against humanity.
(a) A great deal.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Little.
(d) More than its fair share.

4. As the resolution is discussed, some delegates advocate the use of ____________ instead of "genocide."
(a) Racism.
(b) Terrorism.
(c) Extermination.
(d) Persecution.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Lemkin realizes that for a genocide convention to be passed and ratified, he needs to appeal to the _____________ of the delegates.

2. What is the name of the book that Lemkin publishes in his attempt to help people believe the claims?

3. As information about Hitler's extermination of the Jews becomes more widespread, what is the reaction of the majority of people?

4. On what date does the Allied government condemn Turkey's action against the Armenians?

5. Armenians who are not killed are deported by force to camps in what country?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. Immediately after World War II, how did books and films that addressed the war deal with the Holocaust?

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. 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?

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

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

9. What kind of law did Raphael Lemkin propose?

10. 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?

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