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CAN WAR BE SUCCESSFUL IN ACHIEVING ITS AIMS?
FACTSHEET 1
War in the 20th C
THE FIRST WORLD WAR
Duration: August 1914-November
1918
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Deaths-military:
Germany 2 million
Russia 1.7 million
France 1.4 million
Austria-Hungary 1.1 million
Great Britain 0.8 million
Italy 0.5 million
Turkey 0.4 million
British Empire 0.3 million
USA 0.1 million
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Deaths – civilian, due to famine, disease,
starvation:
Germany 0.8 million
Russia 2 million
Austria-Hungary 1 million
Deaths in air-raids and at sea: 0.1 million
Massacres of Armenians, Syrians, Jews, Greeks 4
million
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Destruction
Northern France &
Belgium:
8,000 sq miles of farmland laid waste
1,875 sq miles of forest laid waste
1,000 industrial plants destroyed
377 public buildings destroyed
1,200 churches destroyed
1,500 schools destroyed
246,000 houses destroyed |
SECOND WORLD WAR
Duration:
In Europe: September 1939 – May 1945
In Asia: July 1937-August 1945 (USA from December 1945)
| Deaths-Military USSR 7
million
Germany 3.5 million
Japan 1.2 million
USA 300,000
Britain 250,000 |
Deaths – Civilian As a result of bombing:
Japan 500,000 (including 106,000 as a result of
the two atom bombs dropped on Hiroshima & Nagasaki)
Germany 300,000
Britain 60,500
As a result of deliberate killing:
6 million Jews
¼-½ million Gypsies
As a result of invasion, occupation, resistance,
reprisals, slave labour, forced marches, etc:
Unknown |
WARS IN OUR OWN TIME
Wars, including civil wars, in
progress in the years 1995-1997
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Place |
Date war started |
Deaths since war began
(mostly estimates) |
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Afghanistan
Algeria
Angola
Azerbaijan
Bosnia
Burundi
Cambodia
Chad
Colombia
Croatia
Georgia
Guatemala
India
Indonesia
Iraq
Israel
Lebanon
Liberia
Myanmar
Papua New
Guinea
Peru
Philippines
Russia
Rwanda
Sierra
Leone
Somalia
South
Africa
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Tadjikistan
Turkey
Western
Sahara
Zaire |
1978
1992
1975
1988
1992
1993
1975
1966
1978
1991
1991
1968
1981
(Sikhs)
1989
(Kashmir)
1975
1980
1948
1976
1989
1948
1989
1980
1968
1991
1990
1989
1991
1996
1983
1983
1992
1983
1973
1993 |
1,000,000-2,000,000
60,000
500,000
50,000
100,000
100,000
2,000,000
100,000
30,000
10,000
17,000
45,000
20,000
15,000
100,000
500,000
13,000
15,000
200,000
14,000
15,000
28,000
30,000
20,000
800,000
20,000
400,000
15,000
35,000
1,500,000
30,000
20,000
15,000
20,000 |
This table shows
conflicts in which at least 10,000 people have been killed. There are many more
conflicts with casualties in the range 1,000-10,000, (including United Kingdom -
conflict in Northern Ireland: 3,000 deaths.)
[Source: Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of
Bradford]
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