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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. As of the time the genocide treaty became international law, what country had not yet ratified it?

2. Western journalists, including _______________, still in the country describe Khmer Rouge brutality and report accounts from refugees.

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

4. What Power sees in the former Yugoslavia causes her to examine other _______-century genocides.

5. What is the name of the leader of the Khmer Rouge?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of law did Raphael Lemkin propose?

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

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

4. 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?

5. Why did the Khmer Rouge especially target people who wore glasses?

6. 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?

7. 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?

8. 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?

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 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

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.

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

Using the text to support your arguments, analyze and explain the reasons why government officials and journalists in Allied countries dismissed intelligence of the Holocaust as unsubstantiated and untrustworthy.

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