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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. How does Proxmire make his case for ratification of the genocide treaty?
2. Power witnesses the Serbs' takeover of:
3. President Carter makes the first public condemnation of the Khmer Rouge in ____1978.
4. In October 1945, the Nuremberg indictments all mention ______________ in an international legal setting, although it is not be mentioned in the convictions.
5. How does Szmul Zygielbojm die?
Short Essay Questions
1. What intrigued Raphael Lemkin about the Armenian genocide?
2. What message did the United States government tell Morgenthau to pass on to Turkey?
3. In a cable to Washington, what term did Ambassador Henry Morgenthau use to condemn the actions of the Turkish government against the Armenians?
4. What does the author say is the first reason the United States has been slow to recognize and act when genocide has occurred?
5. 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?
6. Immediately after World War II, how did books and films that addressed the war deal with the Holocaust?
7. During his crusade to help European Jews, for what did Lemkin begin searching?
8. Why did the Khmer Rouge especially target people who wore glasses?
9. Why was Morgenthau unable to do more about the Armenians than send cables to Washington?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
Compare and contrast the Rwandan and Yugoslavian war crimes courts. Use the text to support your statements.
Essay Topic 3
Powers' argument in the book is that the United States has had information about all of the twentieth-century genocides and has done little to prevent or stop them. Using the text for support, compare and contrast the United States' reaction to each of the genocides in the book and then analyze whether or not Powers' argument is valid.
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