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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. Which country tries unsuccessfully to charge Turkish leaders with criminal behavior in the aftermath of the Armenian genocide?

3. What is Raphael Lemkin's profession?

4. What is the name of the Polish diplomat and Roman Catholic who infiltrates first the Warsaw ghetto and later a death camp in order to report on Jewish suffering?

5. What bad news does Zygielbojm receive in 1943?

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 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?

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. Why did the Khmer Rouge especially target people who wore glasses?

6. 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?

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

8. Why was Morgenthau unable to do more about the Armenians than send cables to Washington?

9. 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?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Using the text to support your arguments, analyze and explain the reasons why government officials and journalists in Allied countries dismissed intelligence of the Holocaust as unsubstantiated and untrustworthy.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

Analyze and explain the impact the court established by the UN to try Yugoslavians responsible for the genocide in the Balkans had upon the court established to try the perpetrators of the Rwandan genocide.

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