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Armenians are hanged from tripods in the Ottoman Empire in 1915, during the early days of the Armenian Genocide. During the First World War, Armenians were rounded up, forced to move, and killed due to Turkish nationalism and suspicion that Armenians were more likely to be loyal to the Christian enemies of the nation. Over 1.5 million Armenians were killed. Even though most historians agree that this is the first 20th century genocide, the Turkish government denies that a genocide took place.

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A Japanese-Canadian soldier poses with the German cap he has taken as a souvenir. 

Image Source: http://www.warmuseum.ca/

Over 500 Japanese and Chinese-Canadians served in the First World War, despite the fact that they were not allowed citizenship and routinely turned away from enlistment offices before 1916. Military service was a way to them to articulate their manhood, their demand for full citizenship, and their belief in liberty and the rights of small nations for which the Allies claimed to fight.

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