Read About the Armenian Genocide.

HW A. Find Turkey or Ottoman Empire on the Map in your Text on p. 423, 452  Draw it.  Google Armenia and color in where the Armenians
Read about the Armenian Genocide in your text on 503. 
At the beginning of WWI the Ottoman Turks accused the Armenians of..............
This led to..................1, 2, 3, 4 results
Describe the experience of the exile by the Armenians
Why did the world ignore this mass murder?
For what reasons would you guess that Turkey to this day (April 23, 2015) denies it happened?



HW B: Now, As you read below, write down or make a T Chart the similarities between the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust. (such as Kristallnacht, etc.)   Which of these similarities reveals that this was a Genocide? 

FACT SHEET: THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
During the second half of the nineteenth century, the Armenian population of the Ottoman (Turkish) Empire became the target of increasing persecution by the Ottoman government. These persecutions culminated in a three decade period during which millions of Armenians were systematically uprooted from their homeland of 3,000 years and eliminated through massacres and exile.

THE PATTERN OF PERSECUTION: 1915-1922
By the beginning of World War 1, there were more than 2,500,000 living in the Ottoman Empire; today, fewer than 100,000 declared Armenians remain in Turkey, most of them in Istanbul and Western Turkey. The Eastern provinces, the Armenian heartland, are virtually without Armenians.

APRIL 24 - THE BEGINNING OF THE 1915 GENOCIDE
1) On April 24, 1915, hundreds of Armenian religious, political and intellectual leaders were rounded up, exiled and eventually murdered in remote places in Anatolia.
2) Within several months, the approximately 250,000 Armenian men serving in the Ottoman army during WWI were disarmed and placed in forced labor battalions where they were either starved or executed.
3) The Armenian people, deprived of their leadership and young able-bodied men and disarmed under threat of severe punishment, were then deported from every city, town and village of Asia Minor and Turkish Armenia. In most instances during the death marches, the men and older boys were quickly separated and executed soon after leaving town. The unprotected women and children were marched for weeks into the Syrian desert and subjected to rape, torture, and mutilation along the way. Thousands were seized and forced into Turkish and Kurdish homes and harems. The majority of the deportees died on the marches of forced starvation, disease and massacres.
4) Approximately 500,000 refugees escaped to the north across the Russian border, south into Arab countries, or to Europe and the United States. Thus, the Armenian community of the Ottoman Empire was virtually eliminated as a result of a carefully executed government plan of genocide.  One milllion and a half million were killed.  

How many deaths does it take to constitute Genocide?  What is ethnic cleansing?


But there would be a worse massacre to come....the Holocaust during World War II.