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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 genocide convention needs to be ratified domestically by _______ of the UN's member states in order to become international law.

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

3. Serbian forces executed over 7,000 Muslims in a _____________.

4. What is the name of the book that Lemkin publishes in his attempt to help people believe the claims?

5. What American institution presents some discussion on actions that the U.S. could have taken to help Jews?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. What message did the United States government tell Morgenthau to pass on to Turkey?

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. 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?

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

8. The Armenian genocide began when Turkey's interior minister decided that the Turkish Empire would target which group of subjects?

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

10. What kind of law did Raphael Lemkin propose?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the Rwandan and Yugoslavian war crimes courts. Use the text to support your statements.

Essay Topic 2

In the mid-1980s, advocates for U.S. ratification of the genocide treaty argued that ratification would mean that the U.S. would now be able to file genocide charges against a country in the International Court of Justice. Using the text as backup, compare and contrast the United States' reaction to genocidal acts after it ratified the treaty with its reaction to them prior to ratification in order to decide whether ratification advocates' predictions had come true.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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