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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. Some who are opposed to the United States' ratification of the genocide treaty think it is too broad and therefore can't be used to target what country?
(a) North Korea.
(b) Iraq.
(c) China.
(d) The Soviet Union.

2. What American institution presents some discussion on actions that the U.S. could have taken to help Jews?
(a) The Smithsonian Institution.
(b) The U.S. Holocaust Museum.
(c) The Museum of American History.
(d) The World War II Memorial.

3. Talaat conducts the Armenian genocide because he feels there is no room for __________ in Turkey.
(a) Christians.
(b) Minorities.
(c) Muslims.
(d) Armenians.

4. In what country does the Khmer Rouge conduct its genocidal campaign?
(a) Cambodia.
(b) Laos.
(c) Vietnam.
(d) Burma.

5. President Carter makes the first public condemnation of the Khmer Rouge in ____1978.
(a) September.
(b) January.
(c) August.
(d) April.

Short Answer Questions

1. Key to the definition of genocide is that it is an attempt to wipe out an entire:

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

3. What group of people does Lemkin crusade on behalf of?

4. 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?

5. Historically, according to Power, the United States has been ____________ to recognize and act when genocide occurred.

Short Essay Questions

1. After escaping Germany in 1942, what did Jan Karski do with his findings gathered during his time undercover in the Warsaw ghetto and in a death camp?

2. What message did the United States government tell Morgenthau to pass on to Turkey?

3. What was the concern that several U.S. policymakers had with the ambiguous language of the UN genocide treaty?

4. What intrigued Raphael Lemkin about the Armenian genocide?

5. In lobbying the UN General Assembly for a resolution on genocide, what kind of a law did Lemkin want the body to pass?

6. 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?

7. What kind of law did Raphael Lemkin propose?

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. In coining the term "genocide," what did Lemkin write concerning those who committed it?

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

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