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The French entry into World War I saw the authorities in Vietnam press-gang thousands of "volunteers" for service in Europe, leading to uprisings in Tonkin and Cochinchina. [2] Almost 100,000 Vietnamese were conscripts and went to Europe to fight and serve on the French battlefront, or work as laborers. [3]
Between 1964 and 1973, the U.S. dropped two million tons of bombs on Laos, nearly equal to the 2.1 million tons of bombs it dropped on Europe and Asia during World War II, making Laos the most heavily bombed country in history, relative to its population. [140] The objective of stopping North Vietnam and the VC was never reached.
Major conflicts of this period include the Chinese Civil War in Asia, the Greek Civil War in Europe, the Colombian civil war known as La Violencia in South America, the Vietnam War in Southeast Asia, the Ethiopian Civil War in Africa, and the Guatemalan Civil War in North America.
Graph of global conflict deaths from 1900 to 1944 from various sources. This is a list of wars that began between 1900 and 1944.. This period saw the outbreak of World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945), which are among the deadliest conflicts in human history, with many of the world's great powers partaking in total war and some partaking in genocides.
The Siamese and the Vietnamese were also the only two Southeast Asian nations to fight in the war. [8] Siam sent Siamese Expeditionary Forces to mainland Europe, and participate in the Paris Peace Conference to become a founding member of the League of Nations , overall increasing its international standing and modernizing both their army and ...
Sino–Vietnamese War (1979) Vietnam China: Stalemate. Both sides claimed victory. Chinese withdrawal from northern Vietnam. Lê Duẩn: Sino-Vietnamese border conflicts (1979 – 1991) Vietnam China: Stalemate. China occupied some Vietnamese areas briefly and retreated. Normalization of bilateral relations. Lê Duẩn (until July 1986)
The Vietnam War entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia asserts that Canada's record on the truce commissions was a pro-Saigon partisan one. [48] Under Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, Immigration and Citizenship Canada notably accepted approximately 40,000 American draft evaders and military deserters as legal immigrants despite U.S. pressure. [49]
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."