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What Caused The Armenian Genocide

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The Armenian Genocide began during World War I (1914-1918). The Ottoman Turks were very unfair to the Armenians, but the trend towards constitutional governments in Europe and this had made the Armenians ask for more and more equal rights under the government of the Ottoman Empire in the mid-1800s. The Ottoman Empire had a decline in power and military losses experienced early in World War I caused the Ottoman government to use the Armenians as their victims for these problems, and the Armenian Genocide

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