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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. Serbian forces executed over 7,000 Muslims in a _____________.
2. How does Proxmire make his case for ratification of the genocide treaty?
3. The Khmer Rouge evacuates all __________ before commencing their genocide.
4. What is Raphael Lemkin's profession?
5. What is the name of the book that Lemkin publishes in his attempt to help people believe the claims?
Short Essay Questions
1. What intrigued Raphael Lemkin about the Armenian genocide?
2. What was Nuremberg's significance to the quest for an international law against genocide?
3. After Lemkin's death, William Proxmire, a senator from Wisconsin, took up the movement to have the genocide convention ratified in the U.S. What was the date of Senator Proxmire's first genocide speech?
4. Why was Morgenthau unable to do more about the Armenians than send cables to Washington?
5. What does Powers say motivates U.S. policymakers to keep the U.S. uninvolved in situations when genocide occurs?
6. In coining the term "genocide," what did Lemkin write concerning those who committed it?
7. The Armenian genocide began when Turkey's interior minister decided that the Turkish Empire would target which group of subjects?
8. What message did the United States government tell Morgenthau to pass on to Turkey?
9. In a cable to Washington, what term did Ambassador Henry Morgenthau use to condemn the actions of the Turkish government against the Armenians?
10. What kind of law did Raphael Lemkin propose?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
Demonstrate how the Cambodian genocide illustrates the manner in which internal politics in the United States affect U.S. actions. Support your arguments from the text.
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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