Junior Faith/Sciuto
January-February 2005
Genocide Question Sheet
Brennan DuVall, Mike Meurer, Tony Meyer, Kevin Richardson, Sam Stragand,
Our five objective questions for a quiz are:
1. What group took over the Rwandan government in 1959, and later
perpetrated the 1994 massacre in Rwanda?
2. What was the estimated death toll after 100 days of genocide in
Rwanda?
3. Who led UN peacekeeping forces during the Rwandan genocide?
4. What word did the United States government refuse to use in
describing the situation in Rwanda?
5. What fatal illness was spread in Rwanda during the genocide that
still leaves over 264,000 children as orphans today?
Key dates:
Key names:
Moral questions raised by this study
1. How could such powerful nations stand by as these slaughters were being committed?
2. How could some of the world powers support the government that carried out these atrocities?
3. How/Why did the murderers themselves commit such crimes?
4. What is being done presently to help the oppressed in Rwanda now?
5. What has been done to punish the oppressors?
Jason Esslinger, Ben Favier, Charlie Gaia and Dave Mudd
Our five objective questions for a quiz are:
1) What is the name of the region of the Sudan from which the members of the rebel groups come from (also where the genocide occurred)?
2) What is the common name given to the bands of men allied with the Sudanese government?
3) In what year did the Sudan gain its independence?
4) What is the U.S. government�s main failure in approaching the situation in the Sudan?
5) Beyond loss of life, what did the civil war cause?
Key dates:
Key names:
Moral questions raised by this study
1)What moral obligation does the United States have in accordance to the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights?
2)How can the Janaweed consider themselves moral and religious yet perform a genocide against the Sudanese?
3)How can moral americans and the world ignore what was been happening in Sudan especially in light of the Holocaust?
4)Have the Sudanese people lost their morals because of years upon years of military takeovers, war, and fighting?
5) What moral obligation do we have as Catholics and Americans?
Tim Weaks, Max Grady, Tim Huether, Wes Going, Alex Primo
Our five objective questions for a quiz are:
1) What could have lead these three ethnicities�to war?
2) What role did the United States play in this conflict?
3) How have things changed since the war began?
4) What is the current situation in Bosnia?
5) Who were the main leaders for each faction?
Key dates:
Key names:
Moral questions raised by this study
1) How could the Serbs have put their desire for power over human lives?
2) Could any one person be blamed for this conflict?
3) What is a just punishment for whoever is blamed?
4) Could anything have been done to avoid this conflict?
5) How could ethnic cleansing ever be justified?
Phil Boone, Dan Mueller, Shane Mulligan, Dan Stewart, and Dan Wheeland
Our five objective questions for a quiz are:
1) When did the U.S. turn away 937 Jewish refugees, sending them back to
Germany?
2) When was the first New York paper saying that Jews were being persecuted?
3) Hitler made a public statement in 1942 saying?
4) In June of 1942, it was estimated that already over ___________________
Jews had already been killed, but in September it was found out that the
number was actually over ______________.
5) What is the reason the U.S. would not bomb Auschwitz?
Answers
1) 1939
2) 1941
3) "The war will end with the complete annihilation of the Jews.�"
4) 1 million, 2 million
5) It would divert air power from decisive operations elsewhere.
Key dates:
Key names:
Moral questions raised by this study
1) Did the U.S. have moral responsibility to attack concentration camps?
2) Could the U.S. destroy the concentration camps with the Jews inside?
3) Could the U.S. focus on both the Jews and the Allied troops
simultaneously?
4) What should have been done with the Nazi Holocaust perpetrators?
5) Where was God in all this?
Pat Margherio
Five objective questions for a quiz are:
1. What was Romeo's religious affiliation and what was his youth like?
2. What was the task force Romeo was assigned to?
3. What were some of the failings of the world leaders in Rwanda?
4. What did Romeo suffer from after Rwanda?
5. What did Romeo do after Rwanda to inform the world about what happened?
Key Names
President Clinton
Terry Allen (his interview)
Key Dates
1993-UNAMIR is formed and Romeo is put in command
April 6, 1994-The crash of the plane that sparked the genocide
1999-Romeo attempts suicide after witnessing the events of Rwanda
Moral questions raised by this study
1. How might Romeo's early life have affected his judgment in Rwanda?
2. What just orders were given and what unjust orders were followed that shouldn't have been?
3. Why did the UN leaders not let Romeo look into the weapons tip he had?
4. What effects could Romeo's stories have on the world leaders and the world population?
5. What can we do to help prevent something like Rwanda from happening again?
Genocide essay
My hope is that in these weeks you began to see the importance of morality in life and experiences a multitude of moral dilemmas and questions. I also hoped you learned a lot about important events in recent world history that you might not have know much about before. I also hoped that you learned from working with each other, maybe opened up with a classmate you had not known well before. I also hope that you learned more about web page creation and even Powerpoint production.
I�d like to find out what you believe you really got out of these first weeks, in your reading and study or your assigned genocide, in listening to others� presentation (and reading their web sites) about other genocides, in watching the videos, in your working with others.
So here are some options. If you think you have a better topic, call me over the weekend for me to approve it. I expect about one to two hours of work on this, beginning this weekend.
Essay options:
A) Genocide A essay on the General topic we studied and what you learn about the morality of people and nations.
B) Your specific genocide:
? Sudan ? Bosnia ? Rwanda ? U.S. and the Holocaust
Write about the genocide you studied and what you learned about the morality of people and nations.
Worksheet option:
Answer these five questions:
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- What did you learn about your specific genocide---> the history.
- What did you learn about what the other groups presented --->other histories.
- What did you learn about the morality of people and nations?
- Give three conclusions from your learning
- Give three questions from your experience.
Try to limit your response to two or three typewritten pages. Then put your work on the internet.
Please put this on to your internet site and hand in a hard copy I can grade and return to you.
On your Home Page, you should have a section for your first semester work Faith links
and have another section for your second semester work Morality.
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