"A Problem From Hell:" America and the Age of Genocide Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

Samantha Power
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"A Problem From Hell:" America and the Age of Genocide Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

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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. The officials of what country prevent Lemkin from traveling to Madrid to present his paper on the rise of Hitler and the Armenian genocide?

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

3. What nonbinding measure is suggested as a replacement of the UN genocide treaty, angering Lemkin?

4. The Allies have ____________ intelligence on Hitler's extermination of European Jews.

5. Why doesn't the international community prosecute individuals for their roles in exterminating millions of German Jews?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. In lobbying the UN General Assembly for a resolution on genocide, what kind of a law did Lemkin want the body to pass?

5. 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?

6. As the Khmer Rouge began its genocidal campaign, the U.S. government issued warnings that a bloodbath might happen in the region. What was many Americans' response to the warnings?

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

8. 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?

9. 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?

10. During his crusade to help European Jews, for what did Lemkin begin searching?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 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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