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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. Out of a population of 7 million souls, approximately how many people does the Khmer Rouge kill in its three-and-a-half-year rule?
2. Ultimately, Lemkin's fight is for an international law on ________________.
3. What city does the Khmer Rouge seize in 1975 after a five-year civil war and defeat of the incumbent, American-backed government?
4. There has been __________ public recognition of the Allies' inaction with regard to the Holocaust.
5. 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?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did the Khmer Rouge especially target people who wore glasses?
2. What kind of law did Raphael Lemkin propose?
3. 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?
4. What does Powers say motivates U.S. policymakers to keep the U.S. uninvolved in situations when genocide occurs?
5. The Armenian genocide began when Turkey's interior minister decided that the Turkish Empire would target which group of subjects?
6. Immediately after World War II, how did books and films that addressed the war deal with the Holocaust?
7. What intrigued Raphael Lemkin about the Armenian genocide?
8. In coining the term "genocide," what did Lemkin write concerning those who committed it?
9. Which specific instance of genocide has American society committed itself to remembering and preventing a repetition of, which makes their slowness to react when genocide occurs disturbing to say the least?
10. In a cable to Washington, what term did Ambassador Henry Morgenthau use to condemn the actions of the Turkish government against the Armenians?
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
Compare and contrast the United States' initial response to each genocide covered in A Problem from Hell. Use the text to support your statements.
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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