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American Civil War: 0.6–1 million [80] [81] 1861–1865 United States vs. Confederate States: North America Mozambican Civil War: 0.5–1 million [82] 1977–1992 People's Republic of Mozambique, later Republic of Mozambique, and allies vs. RENAMO and allies Mozambique First Sudanese Civil War: 0.5–1 million [83] [84] 1955–1972
During the Persian Gulf War, many Asian Americans served in the U.S. military, with some filling senior officer positions, [195] including Major General John Fugh who was promoted to the position of Army Judge Advocate General during the conflict. [196] One Asian American service member died during the conflict. [185]
American Civil War: Confederate casualties 94,000 [30] 195,000+ 290,000+ ... "Deaths per day" is the total number of Americans killed in military service, divided by ...
Many Nisei worked to prove themselves as loyal American citizens. Of the 20,000 Japanese Americans who served in the Army during World War II, [173] "many Japanese American soldiers had gone to war to fight racism at home" [181] and they were "proving with their blood, their limbs, and their bodies that they were truly American". [182]
Foreign enlistment in the American Civil War (1861–1865) reflected the conflict's international significance among both governments and their citizenry. Diplomatic and popular interest were aroused by the United States' status as a nascent power at the time, and by the war's central cause being the globally divisive issue of slavery. [ 2 ]
Manzanar is the site of one of ten American concentration camps, where more than 120,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II from March 1942 to November 1945. Although it had over 10,000 inmates at its peak, it was one of the smaller internment camps.
Iwo Jima was one of the bloodiest battles fought by the Americans during the Pacific War. American casualties were 6,821 killed and 19,207 wounded. [184] The Japanese losses totaled well over 20,000 men killed, with only 1,083 prisoners taken. [184]
Over the course of the war, approximately 110,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese who lived on the West Coast of the United States are uprooted from their homes and interned. 1942: Japanese American soldiers from Hawaiʻi form the 100th Infantry Battalion of the United States Army in June 1942. Subsequently, the battalion fights in Europe ...