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Caucasian War: 1817: 1864: 47 years Afghanistan conflict: 27 April 1978: Ongoing: 46 years, 9 months, 2 weeks and 3 days [citation needed] Kurdish–Turkish conflict (1978–present) 27 November 1978: Ongoing: 46 years, 2 months, 2 weeks and 3 days Cold War (Indirect War) 1946: 1991: 45 years Chadian Civil Wars: 1965: 2010: 45 years
The world's colonial population at the time of the First World War totaled about 560 million people, of whom 70.0% were in British domains, 10.0% in French, 8.6% in Dutch, 3.9% in Japanese, 2.2% in German, 2.1% in American, 1.6% in Portuguese, 1.2% in Belgian, and 0.5% in Italian possessions. The home domains of the colonial powers had a total ...
This article contains the length and list of major conflicts, ... World War II: 1941 – 1945: 3.7 years (3 years, 8 months) 16: Korean War: 1950 – 1953: 3.1 years
A world war is an international conflict that involves most or all of the world's major powers. [1] Conventionally, the term is reserved for two major international conflicts that occurred during the first half of the 20th century, World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945), although some historians have also characterized other global conflicts as world wars, such as the Nine ...
Small-scale border disputes were common, [163] but only one spiralled out of control, leading to a major war: the Chaco War in 1932–1935. Two small countries, Bolivia (with 2.2 million people) and Paraguay (with only 900,000) fought grueling battles over control of the Gran Chaco , a large but long-neglected border region where oil had ...
Statistics of Deadly Quarrels is a 1960 book by English mathematician and physicist Lewis Fry Richardson 11 October 1881 - 30 September 1953 published by Boxwood Press.The book is a mathematical and social science study on the origins of war; topics that informed much of Richardson's research throughout his life.
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."
In the history of the 20th century, the interwar period (interbellum) lasted from 11 November 1918 to 1 September 1939 (20 years, 9 months, 21 days) – from the end of World War I (WWI) to the beginning of World War II (WWII). It was relatively short, yet featured many social, political, military, and economic changes throughout the world.