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China Ethiopian Civil War and Eritrean War of Independence: 1.75–2 million [57] [58] [59] 1961–1991 [d] EPRDF, later EPLF, vs. Derg and People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia: Horn of Africa Russo-Circassian War and Caucasian War: 1.5–2 million [60] 1763–1864 Circassian Confederation, Principality of Abkhazia, and Caucasian Imamate vs ...
Famines during the war caused by drought affected both China and India: the Chinese famine of 1942–1943 in Henan led to starvation deaths of 2 to 3 million people, Guangdong famine caused more than 3 million people to flee or die, and the 1943–1945 Indian famine in Bengal killed about 7 million Indian civilians in Bihar and Bengal.
The Chinese famine of 1942–1943 has been referred to as 'China's forgotten famine', [19] overshadowed by the war that took place around it and the Great Chinese Famine of 1958–1961. Novelist Liu Zhenyun says that there is a "collective amnesia" in Henan about the famine. [ 20 ]
By April 1945, China had already been at war with Japan for more than seven years. Both nations were exhausted by years of battles, bombings and blockades. From 1941–1943, both sides maintained a "dynamic equilibrium", where field engagements were often numerous, involved large numbers of troops and produced high casualty counts, but the results of which were mostly indecisive.
The Sino-Indian War between China and India occurred in October–November 1962. A disputed Himalayan border was the main cause of the war. There had been a series of violent border skirmishes between the two countries after the 1959 Tibetan uprising, when India granted asylum to the Dalai Lama.
108,000 casualties [1] Japanese claim (until the fall of Hengyang): [3] 66,468 killed and 22,460 captured: Chinese claim: [3] 66,809 casualties Japanese claim: [3] Until 20th July 1944 : 3,860 killed 8,327 wounded 7,099 sick 19,286 total By mid August 1944 : estimated to have reached 40,000-50,000 casualties (including from illness)
The Territories of the People's Republic of China. London: Europa Productions, Taylor & Francis. 1-85743-149-9. China. Encyclopædia Britannica. Economic Times Bureau. (December 20, 2009). "Wars that People's Republic of China fought". The Economic Times. Jun, Niu. (August 10, 2012). The birth of the People's Republic of China and the road to ...
Operation Ichi-Go (Japanese: 一号作戦, romanized: Ichi-gō Sakusen, lit. 'Operation Number One') was a campaign of a series of major battles between the Imperial Japanese Army forces and the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China, fought from April to December 1944.