The Armenian Genocide Trivia Questions

Historical consensus places the number of deaths at approximately 1.5 million, making claims under 100,000 far too low.

Most historians estimate that between 1.2 and 1.5 million Armenians were killed in the genocide, a widely accepted figure.

The Armenian Genocide was carried out by the Ottoman Empire, not Russia. Russia was an ally of the Armenians during World War I.

The Ottoman Empire systematically killed and deported Armenians between 1915 and 1923, with the worst violence occurring during World War I.

The first genocide of the 20th century was the Herero and Nama genocide (1904–1908) in German South West Africa, which preceded the Armenian Genocide.

Turkey does not officially recognize the events as a historical atrocity, instead maintaining that deaths resulted from war and inter-communal conflict.

Raphael Lemkin created the word 'genocide' in 1944, citing the Armenian Genocide as a key example that motivated his work.

In April 2021, President Joe Biden became the first U.S. president to formally recognize the Armenian Genocide, using the term in a statement.