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The overall population loss from 1912 to 1920, based on the pre-war level was 1,236,000 persons (including 750,000 in World War I; 150,000 killed in the Balkan Wars and a decline in the number of births of 336,000), in addition there were 47,000 war related deaths during 1914–1920, that are included with deaths by natural causes.
Bubble chart of wars with over 1.5 million deaths. [246] Combatant deaths in conventional wars, 1800-2011. [247] Seven deadliest wars after 1900. The length of each spiral segment is proportional to the war's duration and its area size to its death toll.
Before World War II, the events of 1914–1918 were generally known as the Great War or simply the World War. [1] In August 1914, the magazine The Independent wrote "This is the Great War. It names itself". [2] In October 1914, the Canadian magazine Maclean's similarly wrote, "Some wars name themselves. This is the Great War."
The Russian army's Vostok Battalion in South Ossetia during the Russo-Georgian War. Damaged building during the Russo-Ukrainian War, in Lysychansk, Ukraine on 4 August 2014. Battle of Bakhmut, 2023. 2001: 2001 insurgency in Macedonia; 2001–2003: Pankisi Gorge crisis; 2001–present: Abkhazia conflict. 2001: 2001 Kodori crisis; 2006: 2006 ...
Irish civilians were all British citizens during the conflict. Third Anglo-Afghan War: 1919 1921 1,136 1,136 - reference - includes British Indian Army: Russian Civil War: 1918 1920 1,073 1,073 -Ref: World War I: 1914 1918 887,858 107,000 [8] 994,858 World War I casualties: Anglo-Aro War: 1901 1902 700-800 700-800 Boxer Rebellion: 1899 1901 33 ...
Ottoman casualties of World War I were the civilian and military casualties sustained by the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Almost 1.5% of the Ottoman population, or approximately 300,000 people of the Empire's 21 million population in 1914, [1] were estimated to have been killed during the war. Of the total 300,000 casualties ...
The Three Alls policy was a Japanese scorched earth policy adopted in China during World War II, the three "alls" being "kill all, burn all, loot all". [160] This policy was designed as retaliation against the Chinese for the Communist-led Hundred Regiments Offensive in December 1940. [161]
Italian troops reach Trento during the Battle of Vittorio Veneto, 1918. Italy's victory marked the end of the war on the Italian Front and secured the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The collapse of the Central Powers came swiftly. Bulgaria was the first to sign an armistice, the Armistice of Salonica on 29 September 1918. [69]