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Ireland was a part of the United Kingdom during World War I. Five-sixths of the island left to form the Irish Free State, now the Republic of Ireland, in 1922. A total of 206,000 Irishmen served in the British forces during the war. [98] The number of Irish deaths in the British Army recorded by the registrar general was 27,405. [99]
Graph of global conflict deaths from 1900 to 1944 from various sources. This is a list of wars that began between 1900 and 1944.. This period saw the outbreak of World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945), which are among the deadliest conflicts in human history, with many of the world's great powers partaking in total war and some partaking in genocides.
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."
Europe Crimean War: 0.61–0.67 million [107] [108] [109] 1853–1856 Russian Empire vs. Ottoman Empire, France and United Kingdom Crimea, Black Sea, Caucasus and Balkans Syrian civil war: 0.58–0.61 million [110] [111] 2011–present Multiple sides Levant Mexican War of Independence: 0.6 million [112] 1810–1821 Mexican patriots vs. Spanish ...
1918–1920: Latvian War of Independence; 1918–1920: Lithuanian Wars of Independence. 1918–1919: Lithuanian–Soviet War; 1919: Lithuanian War of Independence (War against the Bermontians) 1920: Polish–Lithuanian War; 1919–1921: Polish–Soviet War; 1921: Georgian–Russian War; 1924: Georgian Uprising against Soviet Union
World War I was fought on many fronts around the world from the battlefields of Europe to the far-flung colonies in the Pacific and Africa. While it is most famous for the trench warfare stalemate that existed on Europe's Western Front, in other theatres of combat the fighting was mobile and often involved set-piece battles and cavalry charges.
After the war, the German government claimed that approximately 763,000 German civilians died from starvation and disease during the war because of the Allied blockade. [29] An academic study done in 1928 put the death toll at 424,000. [30] Germany protested that the Allies had used starvation as a weapon of war. [31]
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]