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

2. The Allies set up an international military tribunal in ________________ to prosecute Nazi war criminals.
(a) Paris.
(b) Nuremberg.
(c) New York.
(d) Copenhagen.

3. After Lemkin's death, William Proxmire, a senator from ________________, takes up the movement to have the genocide convention ratified in the U.S.
(a) Michigan.
(b) Wisconsin
(c) Wyoming.
(d) Washington.

4. On what date is the law banning genocide passed?
(a) December 9, 1948.
(b) December 21, 1950.
(c) December 8, 1949.
(d) Not applicable; it was defeated on December 9, 1948.

5. In October 1945, the Nuremberg indictments all mention ______________ in an international legal setting, although it is not be mentioned in the convictions.
(a) Genocide.
(b) Warmongering.
(c) Terrorism.
(d) War crimes.

Short Answer Questions

1. The enforcement mechanisms spelled out in the convention are more explicit about _____________ than _________ of genocide.

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

3. The term "class enemy" that is used by the Khmer Rouge often translated into which group of people?

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

5. What city does the Khmer Rouge seize in 1975 after a five-year civil war and defeat of the incumbent, American-backed government?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. After the Vietnamese ousted the Khmer Rouge from power in 1979, what proof of genocide did they find? What was the United States' reaction to the Vietnamese-discovered evidence, and why?

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

5. 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?

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

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

8. What did Lemkin do while interacting with officials and the public regarding the Holocaust that he thought would make them believe his, and others', claims about Hitler's atrocities against the Jews?

9. Why was Raphael Lemkin worthy of an entire chapter of this book? What is his significance to this survey of genocide?

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

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