The Armenian Genocide happened in world war I due to the rising tension between the young Turk government and the christian Armenians. The Turks largely followed the teaching of jihad, or "the holy war'' which taught them to kill all non Muslims. The Armenian community was made up of three religious denominations: Armenian Catholic, Armenian Protestant, and Armenian Apostolic, the Church of the vast majority of Armenians. the Armenians, because they were not Muslim but Christian were killed in mass. Over 1.5 million Armenians were slaughtered.
