The Effects of the War Millions of men died in World war I, averaging 5,000 every day for four years

But civilians were also indirectly affected by World War I, and paid a price in more ways than one…

The Armenian Genocide One of the first early genocides in world history happened in the context of WWI Organized killing of an entire people

The traditionally Muslim Ottoman Empire launched a campaign of genocide against a Christian minority called Armenians They thought them disloyal, traitors, etc.

Deportations, death marches, one-way train trips and mass executions slowly wiped out most of the Armenian people during the war and into the 1920s

Sadly, Turkey today denies that these incidents were not “genocidal” and/or did not happen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGuznYgXDeI It is estimated that one and a half million Armenians perished between 1915 and 1923. There were an estimated two million Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire on the eve of W.W.I. Well over a million were deported in 1915.