Armenian Genocide
- Sometimes referred to the first genocide of the twentieth century, the Armenian Genocide refers to the physical annihilation of Armenian Christian people living in the Ottoman Empire from spring 1915 through autumn 1916. There were approximately 1.5 million Armenians living in the multi-ethnic Ottoman Empire in 1915. At least 664,000 and possibly as many as 1.2 million died during the genocide, either in massacres and individual killings, or from systematic ill treatment, exposure, and starvation.
League Of Nations
The League of Nations was an intergovernmental organisation founded on January 10, 1920 as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. It was the first international organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. The basic idea was that war is a crime against the whole human community. It is the duty and right that all states join to prevent it. The league was unable to fulfill its original purpose.
Women's Suffrage
World War 1 gave way to a new role to women. As men were shipped off to war, women were recruited to fulfill the jobs that were left by men. The Women’s Suffrage movement is the right of women to vote in elections; a person who advocates the extension of suffrage, particularly to women, is called a suffragist. Limited voting rights were gained by women in Finland, Iceland, Sweden and some Australian colonies and western U.S. states in the late 19th century. National and international organizations formed to coordinate efforts to gain voting rights, especially the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (founded in 1904, Berlin, Germany), and also worked for equal civil rights for women.