What is the Armenian Genocide and how did it Start?

• Deliberate extermination • Armenia is a country in

Northwest Asia bordering Turkey and Iran

• In 1915, leaders of the Turkish government set in motion a plan to expel and massacre Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire http://www.armenianmuseum.org/store/images/Armenian%20Genocide.jpg

What happened during the genocide?

• The group know as the Young Turks took over power in the Ottoman empire

• Armenian joy to terror• The slaughter

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What were the after affects? • Fled Armenia

• Very little left

• Land taken

• Denialhttp://unitedcats.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/wilsonian_armenia.jpg?w=700

Why was it interesting?

• Relate

• Unknown “Holocaust”

• Surprising http://www.armenianlife.com/Home2/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Armenian-Genocide-image.jpg