Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
Newer estimates place the total death toll at 650,000 to 850,000. [88] 148 of the Union dead were U.S. Marines. [92] [93] ca. ^ Civil War April 2, 2012, Doctor David Hacker after extensive research offered new casualty rates higher by 20%; his work has been accepted by the academic community and is represented here.
A casualty in military usage is a person in military service, combatant or non-combatant, who becomes unavailable for duty due to several circumstances, including death, injury, illness, capture and desertion.
Sociologist Martin Shaw described the Cambodian genocide as "the purest genocide of the Cold War era". [3] In 1979, ... Death toll After five years of researching ...
This contained official records of 799,455 executions (1921–1953), [8] around 1.7 million deaths in the Gulag, [9] [10] some 390,000 [11] deaths during the dekulakization forced resettlement, and up to 400,000 deaths of persons deported during the 1940s, [12] with a total of about 3.3 million officially recorded victims in these categories. [13]
The war resulted in the deaths of approximately 3,000,000 Afghans, [272] Civilian death and destruction from the war was massive and detrimental. Estimates of Afghan civilian deaths vary from 562,000 [256] to 2,000,000. [28] [29] A
142,500–206,000 deaths (According to Medact ... The Gulf War was an armed conflict between Iraq and a 42-country coalition led by the ... Throughout the Cold War, ...
World map of alliances in 1970 The 1975 Apollo-Soyuz space rendez-vous, one of the attempts at cooperation between the US and the USSR during the détenteThe Cold War (1962–1979) refers to the phase within the Cold War that spanned the period between the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis in late October 1962, through the détente period beginning in 1969, to the end of détente in the ...