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Unit I: Defining Genocide Test Study Guide     Memorize the 1948
UN definition of genocide and be able to recite it.     Why are
the terms “Holocaust” and “genocide” not interchangeable?
Where has genocide occurred during the 20th and early 21st
centuries? (Refer to the map you were given on Day 1.)     Know
the major common features of genocide according to Ben Kiernan.
o   What is racism according to him and how does it contribute
to genocide?        o   What creates nostalgia for the past?
o   What is the “cult of cultivation” and how does it contribute
to genocide?        o   How does a desire to restore “purity and
order” contribute to genocide?     Know the key practices of
eliminationism according to Daniel Goldhagen in Worse Than War.
o Transformation - is the destruction of a group’s essential and
defining political, social, or cultural identities,          in
order