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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 information about Hitler's extermination of the Jews becomes more widespread, what is the reaction of the majority of people?

2. What proportion of United Nations member states must ratify a measure before it becomes international law?

3. In what country is Power a journalist during the genocide that takes place in the former Yugoslavia?

4. What is the reaction of many countries to refugees that they knew would be killed if forced to return to Germany?

5. America officially ________, and Turkey officially _____________, the Armenian genocide. This stance is true with both countries to this day.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

7. 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?

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. What does Powers say motivates U.S. policymakers to keep the U.S. uninvolved in situations when genocide occurs?

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Using the text to support your arguments, analyze and explain why the Iraqi brutality against the Kurds was viewed by U.S. policymakers and journalists as an understandable means of suppressing rebellion or as a result of the Iraq-Iran war.

Essay Topic 2

Using examples from the text, analyze and explain the causes of the "Southeast Asia fatigue" that permeated most American newsrooms during the Khmer Rouge genocide.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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