The United States and the Armenian Genocide

During the first World War, over a million Armenians were killed as Ottoman Turks embarked on a bloody campaign of ethnic cleansing. Scholars have long described these massacres as genocide, one of Hitler’s prime inspirations for the Holocaust, yet the United States did not officially recognize the Armenian Genocide until 2021.    This is the first book to examine how and why the United States refused to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide until the early 2020s. Although the American gov