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Long Peace" is a term for the unprecedented historical period of relative global stability following the end of World War II in 1945 to the present day. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The period of the Cold War (1947–1991) was marked by the absence of major wars between the great powers of the period, the United States and the Soviet Union .
The word "pax" together with the Latin name of an empire or nation is used to refer to a period of peace or at least stability, enforced by a hegemon, a so-called Pax imperia ("Imperial peace"). The following is a list of periods of regional peace, sorted by alphabetical order. The corresponding hegemon is stated in parentheses.
Pax Americana [1] [2] [3] (Latin for ' American Peace ', modeled after Pax Romana and Pax Britannica), also called the "Long Peace", is a term applied to the concept of relative peace in the Western Hemisphere and later in the world after the end of World War II in 1945, when the United States [4] became the world's dominant economic, cultural, and military power.
For instance, in her essay "The Roots of War", Ayn Rand held that the major wars of history were started by the more controlled economies of the time against the freer ones and that capitalism gave mankind the longest period of peace in history—a period during which there were no wars involving the entire civilized world—from the end of the ...
Within the EEA, there have been no military conflict since 1945, making it the longest period of peace on the western European mainland since the Pax Romana. The European Union was awarded the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of its efforts to maintain and actively foster peace within its borders as well as internationally through ...
Mar. 16—The Manhattan Project in New Mexico was front and center in 1945. In nanoseconds, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan at the end of World War II changed the nature of warfare ...
Warring States period: 453 BC: 223 BC: 230 years Muslim conquests of Afghanistan: 642: 870: 228 years Polish-Russian Wars: 1577: 1794: 217 years, 10 months, 2 weeks and 1 day Byzantine–Ottoman wars: 1265: 1479: 214 years [citation needed] Polish–Teutonic War: 1308: 1521: 213 years Roman conquest of the Iberian Peninsula: 218 BC: 19 BC: 199 ...
The Welsh revolt was likely influenced by the French. The French reentered the conflict in September 1403, landing an army in Wales. The thirteen-year truce was the longest period of peace between England and France in the Hundred Years' War. The war continued intermittently for another five decades.