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Position:Home>History> Did the americans help the armenians during the armenian genocide?Question:In my class we watched a video about the genoicde and we saw pictures from itt....my teacher said that the pictures were real and were taken from americans from the U.S...if so, if the americans were there then why didint they help the armenians with food or take them to the U.S so there safe???? Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: In my class we watched a video about the genoicde and we saw pictures from itt....my teacher said that the pictures were real and were taken from americans from the U.S...if so, if the americans were there then why didint they help the armenians with food or take them to the U.S so there safe???? The U.S was also fighting in a WW1 and having its own problems. But the US did manage to send aid to the Armenians who were dieing in the deserts of Syria, after the U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Henry Morgenthau cabled the State Department that the deportations were increasing and "a campaign of race extermination is in progress." After the Genocide many Armenians who survived were taken in by the US for refuge. The US wasn't a super power at that time. The Army was smaller than Belgium's at the start of the war. Government of USA did not help really, the world closed its eyes to it, but there were lots of politicians, many American journalists and citizens, lots of organizations who helped , there were missionaries in Turkey at the time, even some of them were killed with Armenians. The recognition and official condemnation of Armenian Genocide is the duty of every nation and government, not only USA but the whole world, and we are getting there... |