Question

Which statement best analyzes the allegation that the Armenian genocide was not a genocide?

The tensions of the Armenian
• genocide directly led to the start of World War I.
The tensions of religious persecution against Muslim peoples in the Ottoman Empire led to the Armenian genocide.
The tensions brought about by World War I and religious intolerance allowed the Turks to justify the violence of the genocide.
The tensions of the Armenian
• genocide led the Ottoman Empire to join World War I.

Answer 1

"The tensions brought about by World War I and religious intolerance allowed the Turks to justify the violence of the genocide."

This option best analyzes the allegation by explaining how wartime conditions and entrenched religious/ethnic intolerance were used as pretexts to carry out and legitimize systematic mass violence against Armenians.