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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Historically, according to Power, the United States has been ____________ to recognize and act when genocide occurred.
2. How does Szmul Zygielbojm die?
3. President Carter makes the first public condemnation of the Khmer Rouge in ____1978.
4. Turkey claims its actions are necessary to suppress _______________.
5. 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 __________________.
Short Essay Questions
1. Immediately after World War II, how did books and films that addressed the war deal with the Holocaust?
2. The Armenian genocide began when Turkey's interior minister decided that the Turkish Empire would target which group of subjects?
3. Why was Morgenthau unable to do more about the Armenians than send cables to Washington?
4. In lobbying the UN General Assembly for a resolution on genocide, what kind of a law did Lemkin want the body to pass?
5. What was the concern that several U.S. policymakers had with the ambiguous language of the UN genocide treaty?
6. In coining the term "genocide," what did Lemkin write concerning those who committed it?
7. Why was Raphael Lemkin worthy of an entire chapter of this book? What is his significance to this survey of genocide?
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 a cable to Washington, what term did Ambassador Henry Morgenthau use to condemn the actions of the Turkish government against the Armenians?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Demonstrate how the Cambodian genocide illustrates the manner in which internal politics in the United States affect U.S. actions. Support your arguments from the text.
Essay Topic 2
In the mid-1980s, advocates for U.S. ratification of the genocide treaty argued that ratification would mean that the U.S. would now be able to file genocide charges against a country in the International Court of Justice. Using the text as backup, compare and contrast the United States' reaction to genocidal acts after it ratified the treaty with its reaction to them prior to ratification in order to decide whether ratification advocates' predictions had come true.
Essay Topic 3
Analyze, explain, and demonstrate, supporting your arguments from the text, how, in each of the cases of genocide that Power examines, both physical and cultural destruction were used to demolish and eradicate racial, ethnic, and political groups.
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