Exam 10: Genocide

The United States has not had experience with genocide.

For an atrocity to qualify as genocide,the ______ acts must have been specifically meant to wipe out a group.

During the twentieth century,which of the following has killed more people?

In ______,the Fourth International Russell Tribunal of 1979 found that the government was perpetrating genocide against the indigenous peoples of the Amazon headwaters.The violence included navy riverboats machine-gunning the banks of the rivers and massacres perpetrated by government forces and private citizens alike.

Which of the following is not one of the acts considered to be genocide by the U.N.?

Who were the perpetrators of the Bosnian genocide that lasted from 1992 to 1995?

It is sometimes hard to distinguish between genocide and related types of crimes,such as human rights violations and other war crimes.

The first concentration camp to be opened by the Nazis was ______.

Irving Louis Horowitz,a scholar of genocide,identified four kinds of societies in terms of their ability or willingness to perpetrate genocide.

The first person to use the term genocide was ______.

______ genocides involve situations in which a government uses genocide as a weapon against rivals for political power.

Why does genocide happen? What are some of the reasons for this type of violence?

Which is not a precursor to genocide?

The word utopia comes from Thomas More,the English lawyer who,in his book Utopia,described a rationally organized society in which all property was communally held.

The Armenian genocide was perpetrated during _____.

The Nazi attempt to eliminate the Jews is also known as the ______.

______ societies describes those places where individuals are tortured and returned to the society as a warning about the dangers of opposition to the government.In these communities,human bodies are the medium upon which the state communicates its ideas about conformity

______ societies are characterized by a willingness to accept difference even if it isn't approved of.

The successful attempt by a dominant group,vested with formal authority and/or with preponderant access to the overall resources of power,to reduce by coercion or lethal violence the number of a minority group whose ultimate extermination is held desirable and useful and whose respective vulnerability is a major factor contributing to the decision of genocide was a definition of genocide presented by ______.

Which of the following groups is not included in the United Nations definition of genocide?