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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. In the preface, Power identifies which Serbian leader as the ringleader of the Bosnian genocide?

2. What issue plagues the genocide convention?

3. Upon what group does Lemkin take out his frustration over the United States' slowness to ratify the genocide treaty?

4. 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?

5. America officially ________, and Turkey officially _____________, the Armenian genocide. This stance is true with both countries to this day.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Powers say motivates U.S. policymakers to keep the U.S. uninvolved in situations when genocide occurs?

2. In a cable to Washington, what term did Ambassador Henry Morgenthau use to condemn the actions of the Turkish government against the Armenians?

3. What was the concern that several U.S. policymakers had with the ambiguous language of the UN genocide treaty?

4. 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?

5. What kind of law did Raphael Lemkin propose?

6. 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?

7. 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?

8. What was the scope of the Nuremberg trials limited to as to what the tribunal was to punish?

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

10. What does the author say is the first reason the United States has been slow to recognize and act when genocide has occurred?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and explain the nature and structure of the joint Hutu/Tutsi government that was the result of the 1993 Arusha Accords that ended Rwanda's first civil war.

Essay Topic 2

Using the text as backup, investigate why, during the postwar period, the Holocaust was rarely discussed in general American society and glossed over in, if not omitted entirely from, books and films of the period. In particular, focus on the role American Jews had in encouraging this approach toward the Nazi atrocities against their people and why they did so.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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