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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. For what event is Lemkin invited to Spain to read his paper?
2. 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?
3. When the United States sets up the Committee on Armenian Atrocities, what does the group not call for on behalf of the Armenians?
4. On what date does the Allied government condemn Turkey's action against the Armenians?
5. 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?
Short Essay Questions
1. During his crusade to help European Jews, for what did Lemkin begin searching?
2. 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?
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 was the definition of genocide that was adopted by the UN?
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. Which senator from South Dakota believed that genocide was taking place in Cambodia and wanted the United States to contribute military forces to make it stop?
7. What intrigued Raphael Lemkin about the Armenian genocide?
8. What does the author say is the first reason the United States has been slow to recognize and act when genocide has occurred?
9. What was the concern that several U.S. policymakers had with the ambiguous language of the UN genocide treaty?
10. What does Powers say motivates U.S. policymakers to keep the U.S. uninvolved in situations when genocide occurs?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
Using the text to support your arguments, analyze Power's statement on page 514 about what the United States should do when it becomes aware of genocide and explain, in light of the reaction throughout the 20th century of genocide perpetrators to the measures countries took against them, whether or not, and why, you believe this level of action on the part of the United States will have any influence on future instances of genocide.
Essay Topic 3
Explain America's role in Southeast Asia during the 1960s and demonstrate why this role made Americans reluctant to get involved in the Cambodian genocide. Support your arguments from the text.
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