First Test

Question 1

Genocide

Answer 1

Killing a large group of people, in whole or in part, with the intent to destroy.

Question 2

Two components to the word Genocide

Answer 2

Geno, referring to tribe/ nation
Cide, referring to killing
Groups of people being killed

Question 3

Raphael Lemkin

Answer 3

A Polish Jew, who created the term “Genocide”, that was not used until the mid 1900’s.

Question 4

The four protected groups

Answer 4

National, racial, ethnic, and religious

Question 5

Two other acts, that are NOT killing

Answer 5

Causing serious bodily or mental harm

Forcing people to be transported

Question 6

“as such” ?

Answer 6

The whole list, “such as” would be some of the many, “as such” is all of them

Question 7

Year of the U.N. convention

Answer 7

1948

Question 8

National Sovereignty

Answer 8

The ability for states to do things for themselves, such as laws, taxes, war, etc.

Question 9

Intent vs, Motive

Answer 9

Intent is purposefully doing something

Motive is a secret reason for doing something

Question 10

Namas (Hottentots)

Answer 10

Smaller group, similar to Herero, language with clicking

Question 11

The dessert into which the Herero were driven

Answer 11

The Kalahari Dessert

Question 12

Lothar van Trotha

Answer 12

Saw negotiation as weak, wanted to destroy the Herero

Question 13

Primary basis of economy for Herero and Nama

Answer 13

Cattle

Question 14

Shark Island

Answer 14

Bot really an island, more just rock ground that the Herero and Nama were forced on as a concentration camp

Question 15

Beginning and end of the Second Reich

Answer 15

1871-1918

Question 16

Berlin Conference of 1884-1885

Answer 16

The Germans were given South-West Africa, now Namibia, as a colony. It was to have Germans increase living space

Question 17

Theodor Leutwein

Answer 17

Believed in negotiating treaties with the tribes regarding ownership of the land, this went again the German belief of them being the superior race

Question 18

Lebensraum

Answer 18

The territory that a nation believes is needed for natural development

Question 19

Two reasons the Herero rebelled

Answer 19

Leutwein was not there at the moment, the girls were being rapped, some even to death, and the heavy loss of their land

Question 20

The humiliation that Germans suffered, causing the genocide

Answer 20

When Trotha was gone, the Herero rebelled and launched their first attack, writhing a few days everything the Germans built was attacked; over 100 Germans were killed

Question 21

Leutwein‘s way of dealing with the Herero

Answer 21

He tried to bargain with them to get their land, but they needed the land for their cattle based economy

Question 22

Battle of Waterberg

Answer 22

Aug. 11-12, 1904

Question 23

Fried rich von Lindequist

Answer 23

Governor of German South-West Africa

Question 24

Hamidian Massacres

Answer 24

The Sultan of the Ottoman Empire was obsessed with the Armenians, and killed about 250,000 Armenians

Question 25

Significance of the Hamidian Massacres to the Armenian Genocide

Answer 25

The hate toward the Christian Armenians from the Turks was always there, for years

Question 26

Significance of the Battle of Gallipoli

Answer 26

Churchill planned to attack Constantinople, but could not get through with his ships due to the Turks having the high ground

Question 27

Balkan Wars

Answer 27

The Ottoman Empire lost much of it’s land, and blamed the Armenians for it

Question 28

Two Axis countries during WWI

Answer 28

Turkey and Germany allied, to go against Russia

Question 29

Pan-Turkism

Answer 29

Turkey needed cultural unification

Question 30

Mustafa Kemal

Answer 30

President of Turkey during the Armenian Genocide

Question 31

Pan-Turanism

Answer 31

Turkey needed geographical unification

Question 32

Three reforms promised by the Young Turks

Answer 32

1. Everyone will be equal 2. Free exercise of religion 3. Everyone gains a free education

Question 33

Battle of Sarikamish

Answer 33

Turkey and Russia had a battle, and Russia won, resulting in the Turks blaming Armenians for the loss

Question 34

Two allies during WWI

Answer 34

USA, and Russia

Question 35

Committee of Union and Progress (CUP)

Answer 35

The group the Young Turks belonged to

Question 36

Two other Christian groups that weren’t Armenians

Answer 36

Assyrians and Greeks

Question 37

Der Zor

Answer 37

Armenians were forced to death marches from where they lived to Der Zor, which was far south

Question 38

Henry Morgenthau

Answer 38

USA ambassador who spoke against the Armenian Genocide

Question 39

The three leaders of the Armenian Genocide

Answer 39

Talaat, Enver, and Djemal

Question 40

How WWI made it easier to kill the Armenians

Answer 40

It was easier for them to cover it up, by stating it was losses due to the war

Question 41

April 24, 1915

Answer 41

The Armenian Genocide officially began