Causes
This empire was in decline and losing territory in the 19th and 20th centuries, leading to rising nationalism.
Ottoman Empire
The estimated number of Armenians killed between 1915 and 1923.
1-1.5 million
This political group led the genocide and sought to create a homogenous Turkish state.
Committee for Union and Progress
The primary religious group targeted during the Armenian Genocide.
Armenian Christians
This term, now widely used in discussions of human rights, was first used by the Allies in 1915 to describe the Armenian Genocide.
Crimes Against Humanity
This group was blamed for the Ottoman Empire’s loss at the Battle of Sarikamish in 1915, justifying mass deportations.
Armenians
This form of mass killing involved forcing Armenians into the Syrian desert without food, water, or shelter.
Death Marches
This Ottoman Minister of the Interior was considered the mastermind of the genocide.
Talaat Pasha
This group was the first targeted phase of the genocide, disarmed and executed in labor battalions.
Armenian Men
This U.S. ambassador was one of the first to document and report on the genocide.
Henry Morgenthau
This revolutionary movement in 1908 initially promoted equality but later adopted extreme nationalism, targeting Armenians.
Young Turk Revolution
This law legalized the mass deportation of Armenians under the justification of “military necessity.”
Temporary Law of Deportation
This European country was an ally of the Ottoman Empire during WWI and failed to intervene despite being aware of the genocide.
Germany
250 Armenian intellectuals and leaders were arrested and executed, marking the official start of the genocide. When did this happen?
April 24, 1915
This treaty in 1920 proposed an independent Armenian state but was never ratified.
Treaty of Sevres
This massacre between 1894-1896, ordered by Sultan Abdul Hamid II, set a precedent for state-sanctioned violence against Armenians.
Hamidian Massacre
Many Armenian women were forced into Turkish or Kurdish households, where they were subjected to this form of erasure.
Forced assimilation
The Ottoman Minister of War, who suffered major military losses to Russia and sought to purify the empire.
Enver Pasha
Women and children were often subjected to these two specific brutal fates, in addition to deportation.
Rape, forced assimilation, forced conversion, sexual slavery
This treaty, signed in 1923, ignored the genocide and provided no justice for Armenian victims.
Treaty of Lausanne
Explain one Surrah from the Quran or one Hadith that outlines the dehumanization of the Armenian Christians.
- Jews and Christians go to hell in the place of Muslims
- Jizyah tax
- Worst of all creatures
- Rape of slave women
- Lack of legal retribution
- Force Jews and Christians to the narrowest part of the road
Over 2,500 of these cultural institutions were destroyed or repurposed to erase Armenian identity.
Churches, schools, monasteries
This secret paramilitary group, composed of convicts and military personnel, carried out mass killings.
Special Organization
This city witnessed mass drownings of Armenian women and children in the Black Sea.
Trabzon
In recent years, this country officially recognized the Armenian Genocide despite political tensions with Turkey.
USA