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Boer War, 1899–1902. First World War, 1914–1918. Russian Civil War, 1917–1922. Third Afghan War, 1919. Irish War of Independence, 1919–1921. Irish Civil War, 1922–1923. Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939. Arab Revolt in Palestine, 1936-1939. Second World War, 1939–1945. Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine, 1944-1948. Partition of ...
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- World War I
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The largest and bloodiest war of the 20th century (and of all time) was World War II. The conflict, which lasted from 1939 to 1945, involved most of the planet. When it was finally over, between 62 and 78 million are estimated to have died. Of that enormous group, which represents about 3 percent of the entire world population at the time, the hu...
World War I was also catastrophic but total casualties are much harder to calculate as deaths were not well documented. Some sources estimate that there were over 10 million military deaths plus civilian casualties, of which there are thought to be even more (so in total, the number of deaths is estimated at 20 million or more). Factoring in the...
The third bloodiest war of the 20th century was the Russian Civil War. This war caused the death of an estimated 13.5 million people, almost 10% of the population—12 million civilians and 1.5 million soldiers. Unlike the two world wars, however, the Russian Civil War did not spread across Europe or beyond. Rather, it was a struggle for power fol...
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- The 1900s. This decade opened the century with some amazing scientific and technological feats: the first flight by the Wright brothers, Henry Ford's first Model-T, and Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity.
- The 1910s. This decade was dominated by the first "total war"—World War I. It also saw other huge changes during the Russian Revolution and the beginning of Prohibition in the United States.
- The 1920s. The Roaring '20s were a time of a booming stock market, speakeasies, short skirts, the Charleston, and jazz. The '20s also showed great strides in women's suffrage—women got the vote in 1920.
- The 1930s. The Great Depression hit the world hard in the 1930s. The Nazis took advantage of this situation and came to power in Germany, established their first concentration camp, and began a systematic persecution of Jews in Europe.
- World War I. The First World War was a global conflict centered in Europe in the early twentieth century, with the Allies on one side and the Central Powers on the other.
- World War II. The Second World War was the deadliest conflict in human history, involving the militaries of every world power and marked by the emergence of the German Nazis, the ensuing Holocaust, and the only deployment of nuclear weapons in the history of warfare.
- Korean War. The first "hot" conflict in what would become the Cold War, the mid-twentieth century's Korean War was costly and frustrating -- with territorial gains fluctuating rapidly over the course of four years, exceptionally brutal weather conditions, and atrocities committed on both sides.
- Vietnam War. In 1955, the communist North Vietnamese National Liberation Front (Viet Cong) invaded South Vietnam in an attempt to overthrow leader Ngo Dinh Diem and reunite the country by force.
This was a major rift in the Arab world. Sino-Indian War(1962) --Short but bloody border war between China and India. Second Kashmir War (1965) --Second war between India and Pakistan over Kashmir. Six-Day War(1967) -- Israel defeated the combined forces of Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Iraq in six days.
20th-century wars. ^ Advisory role from the forming of the MAAG in Vietnam to the Gulf of Tonkin incident. ^ Direct U.S. involvement ended in 1973 with the Paris Peace Accords.
This is a list of wars ordered chronologically by the year that hostilities were initiated. ( See also war; law of war; military technology; collective violence .) 1300–1200 bce. Trojan War (dates uncertain) 1200–1100 bce. Trojan War (dates uncertain) 800–700 bce. First Messenian War ( c. 735–715 bce)
