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Title: Armenian Genocide


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Armenian Genocide
  • The Forgotten Genocide

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Where is Armenia?
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Background
  • Armenians (Minorities) were Christians in a
    Muslim Empire controlled by the Ottomans
  • Minorities wanted their own states.
  • Armenians were accused of supporting Russian
    plans against the Ottoman Empire at a time when
    the Ottoman Empire was at War with Russia

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  • Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire (Turks)
    were the target of persecutions by the Ottoman
    government
  • The persecutions lasted for 3 decades
  • Why was nothing done over 30 years to stop this?
  • World at War
  • Non-Western Countries
  • Thought to be a civil war
  • no term for genocide at the time, therefore it
    didnt exist

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  • http//www.theforgotten.org/intro.html

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Fact Sheet
  • Armenians all over the world commemorate this
    great tragedy on April 24, because it was on that
    day in 1915 when 300 Armenian leaders, writers,
    thinkers and professionals in Constantinople
    (present day Istanbul) were rounded up, deported
    and killed. Also on that day in Constantinople,
    5,000 of the poorest Armenians were butchered in
    the streets and in their homes.

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Fact Sheet
  • The Armenian Genocide was masterminded by the
    Central Committee of the Young Turk Party
  • The Armenian Genocide was directed by a Special
    Organization (Teshkilati Mahsusa) set up by the
    Committee of Union and Progress, which created
    special "butcher battalions," made up of violent
    criminals released from prison.
  • The Armenian Genocide occurred in a systematic
    fashion

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Fact Sheet
  • First the Armenians in the army were disarmed,
    placed into labor battalions, and then killed.
  • Second, Armenian political and intellectual
    leaders were rounded up and killed
  • Finally, all remaining Armenians were called from
    their homes, told they would be relocated and
    then marched off to concentration camps in the
    desert

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Fact Sheet
  • April 24, 1915 hundreds of Armenian religious
    political and intellectural leaders were rounded
    up, deported, and killed.
  • 5,000 of the poorest Armenians were butchered in
    the streets and in their homes.
  • 1.5 million Armenians were killed out of 2.5
    million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire

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Present Day
  • The Turkish government still denies that there
    was an Armenian genocide
  • Explained as Civil War
  • Fewer than 100,000 declared Armenians remain in
    Turkey today.
  • War Crimes Trial held and Leaders of the Young
    Turk government were found guilty of murder.

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QUESTIONS
  • What human rights abuses can you identify from
    the video?
  • In what way did the Forgotten Genocide help
    Hitler during WWII?
  • What were the Ottomans governments reasons for
    eliminating the Armenians?
  • What was the Ottoman governments plan for
    destroying the Armenian people?

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Go to Textbook
  • Page 419
  • Document based assessments

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Document A
  • As it got worse, all of us, and all the people,
    began gathering in our school. The word came
    around that the Turks were going on the streets
    and killing all the Armenians and leaving them on
    the streets. I, myself, was in school already, so
    I simply stayed there. Then orders came from the
    school that we, too, should run away. But where?
    All the buildings were on fire! The Turks were
    burning everything. There was a whole group of
    us running away from the school.
  • From whos point of view is this reading?

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Experiences by Arnold Toynbee
  • The Massacre of Armenian subjects in the Ottoman
    Empire in 1896was amateur and ineffective
    compared with the largely successful attempt to
    exterminate them during the First World War in
    1915This genocide was carried out under the
    cloak of legality by cold-blooded governmental
    action. These were not mass-murders committed
    spontaneously by mobs of private people
  • According to this document, the 1915 massacre of
    Armenians
  • a) went unpunished
  • b) was ineffective and unsuccessful
  • c) was not was well documented as 1896
  • d) was committed with the knowledge of the
    Turkish government

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  • What evidence do we have from our text supporting
    this answer?
  • This genocide was carried out under the
    cloak of legality by cold- blooded governmental
    action
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