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 * //"Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?"~ Adolf Hitler// **

The Armenian Genocide was not "unknown" throughout the rest of the world, just more avoided and ignored.

Other countries knew about the terrors of the Armenian Genocide. They attempted to take action when they threatened to hold Turkey for all the massacres, but in the end it was an idol threat that never went through. The rest of the world wanted to help the Armenians out, but World War I and domestic issues of their own kept them from taking action.

No action was taken upon the Armenian Genocide because no laws existed yet on how the situation of a Genocide should be handled. Money was raised to insure survival for Armenians that escaped, but did not lower the total death toll of the Genocide.

Resistance was tried within the Turkish government as well, but were not very successful towards their cause.

In the end, the efforts made did contribute to the Armenian Genocide and helped out as much as possible.  ** The Armenian Genocide has been forgotten. Today, the Turkish government claims that the genocide didn't happen. They claim that it was a plan to make the Armenian population equal to zero. International community members and the U.S. haven't pressed charges against Turkey so that they will admit to the genocide. Discussion started up in Europe when Turkey requested to become a part of Europe. The Europeans decided that they would like an apology from the Turkish government and then they could be allowed to become part of Europe.

This isn't what should be happening. The Armenian Genocide happened and the Turkish know that it did. Therefore, they should just admit it. It might have seemed like a little event in history to them because they didn't realize how much damage they were doing, but it really wasn't. It was something that happened in time and this something should be remembered on April 24th. **

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