Exam 10: Genocide

R.J.Rummel calculates that during the Holocaust,the Nazis killed approximately __________________ million people through genocide,forced labors,starvation,experiments,and various other means.

It is clear that genocide has exacted a terrible cost in human life and suffering during the twentieth century and has continued to do so in the twenty-first century,as illustrated by the genocide in the Darfur region of Rwanda.

Genocide requires a tremendous amount of planning and organization that occurs weeks,months,and even years before the actual killing takes place.

Which of the following is a reason why genocide is hard to define?

Discuss genocide in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.Provide examples to support your work.

Discuss three of genocide scholar Irving Louis Horowitz's kinds of societies in terms of their ability or willingness to perpetrate genocide.

During the Armenian genocide,the first victims were ______.

The political scientist R.J.Rummel has suggested that genocide and similar types of mass violence are crimes perpetrated almost exclusively by ______ states.

The United Nations defines genocide as any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy,in whole or in part,a national,ethnic,racial,or religious group,such as (a)Killing members of the group; (b)Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c)Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d)Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e)Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

The policy of taking children away from their families and educating them to be "good citizens," thereby stripping them of their native culture is referred to as ______.

The practice of sending American Indian children to boarding schools where they were forbidden to speak their language,practice their religion,or otherwise engage in aspects of their traditional culture can also be defined as genocide.