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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 1948, Lemkin flies to _____________ to lobby the subcommittee that was preparing the actual text of the convention.

2. For what event is Lemkin invited to Spain to read his paper?

3. Lemkin had read many of the histories detailing what crime?

4. By 1976, nearly ___________ Cambodians are dead.

5. Key to the definition of genocide is that it is an attempt to wipe out an entire:

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

6. What kind of law did Raphael Lemkin propose?

7. 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?

8. Immediately after World War II, how did books and films that addressed the war deal with the Holocaust?

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. What intrigued Raphael Lemkin about the Armenian genocide?

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

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

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.

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