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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what date does the Allied government condemn Turkey's action against the Armenians?
(a) May 15, 1919.
(b) May 15, 1924.
(c) May 24, 1915.
(d) May 19, 1915.

2. Which of the following issues are not among those that the United States feared would be used against them under the genocide treaty?
(a) Slavery.
(b) Native American relocation.
(c) Women's rights.
(d) Jim Crow.

3. How does Proxmire make his case for ratification of the genocide treaty?
(a) He travels the world and made documentaries exposing acts of genocide.
(b) He gives a daily speech on genocide on the Senate floor.
(c) He calls for a vote on the treaty every day on the Senate floor.
(d) He hosts a daily national talk show about genocide.

4. What proportion of United Nations member states must ratify a measure before it becomes international law?
(a) Three-quarters.
(b) One-third.
(c) Two-thirds.
(d) Three-fifths.

5. President Carter makes the first public condemnation of the Khmer Rouge in ____1978.
(a) April.
(b) August.
(c) September.
(d) January.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lemkin notes earlier in the century that _________ and genocide are almost always connected.

2. The Khmer Rouge, in conducting their genocide, eliminates anyone deemed a(n) __________or a(n) _________.

3. The author focuses on which country's response to genocide?

4. Turkey claims its actions are necessary to suppress _______________.

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. In a cable to Washington, what term did Ambassador Henry Morgenthau use to condemn the actions of the Turkish government against the Armenians?

5. Which senator from South Dakota believed that genocide was taking place in Cambodia and wanted the United States to contribute military forces to make it stop?

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

7. What kind of law did Raphael Lemkin propose?

8. 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?

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

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

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