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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. 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 __________________.

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

3. How does Szmul Zygielbojm die?

4. Serbian forces executed over 7,000 Muslims in a _____________.

5. What bad news does Zygielbojm receive in 1943?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. After Lemkin's death, William Proxmire, a senator from Wisconsin, took up the movement to have the genocide convention ratified in the U.S. What was the date of Senator Proxmire's first genocide speech?

6. 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?

7. 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?

8. How do we know that the United States and British governments had a great deal of intelligence on Hitler's extermination of Jews that belied their feigned ignorance of the atrocities?

9. What intrigued Raphael Lemkin about the Armenian genocide?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Bosnian Serbs believed that in order to achieve lasting ethnic purity, they had to cut the ties between citizen and land. Using the text as backup, analyze and explain:

1) the historical and ideological reasons why the Serbs felt that ethnic purity had to be achieved in Bosnia rather than all ethnicities coexisting together peacefully.

2) the methods that the Serbs used to cut the ties between non-Serbian citizens and their land.

Essay Topic 2

When the term "genocide" was coined, some welcomed it as a way to motivate any who used it to stand against the atrocities it represented; others argued that a word was just a word, and that using this word would not change official stances. Compare and contrast how the world reacted to the various acts of genocide expounded upon in A Problem from Hell's as you develop an analysis that explains which opinion history has, so far, proven to be correct.

Essay Topic 3

When World War I ended, Britain, France, and Russia wanted to hold officials in Germany, Austria, and Turkey responsible for violations of law and crimes of humanity. For Turkey, this action would have tried their officials for the atrocities committed upon the Armenians. Explain and demonstrate, backing your arguments from the text, why the United States refused to go along with the rest of the Allies' desires.

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