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Before 1942 and inclusion in the Pacific War: 1937-07-07 – 1937-07-09 Marco Polo Bridge Incident; 1937-08-13 – 1937-11-26 Battle of Shanghai; 1937-09-01 – 1937-11-09 Battle of Taiyuan; 1937-12-09 – 1938-01-31 Battle of Nanjing; 1938-03-24 – 1938-05-01 Battle of Xuzhou; 1938-06-11 – 1938-10-27 Battle of Wuhan
This list of wars by death toll includes all deaths directly or indirectly caused by the deadliest wars in history. These numbers encompass the deaths of military personnel resulting directly from battles or other wartime actions, as well as wartime or war-related civilian deaths, often caused by war-induced epidemics, famines, or genocides.
American Civil War: 392 Battle of Riachuelo: 1865 Paraguayan War: 997 Battle of the Yalu River: 1894 First Sino-Japanese War: 1,730 Battle of the Yellow Sea: 1904 Russo-Japanese War: 566 Battle of Tsushima: 1905 Russo-Japanese War: 5,162 Battle of Lemnos: 1913 First Balkan War: 146 Battle of Coronel: 1914 World War I: 1,660 Battle of the ...
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.
Between 1942 and 1945, there were four main areas of conflict in the Pacific War: China, the Central Pacific, South-East Asia and the South West Pacific. US sources refer to two theaters within the Pacific War: the Pacific theater and the China Burma India Theater (CBI). However, these were not operational commands.
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.
The Battle of West Hunan (Chinese: 湘西會戰), also known as the Battle of Xuefeng Mountains (Chinese: 雪峰山戰役) and the Zhijiang Campaign (Chinese: 芷江戰役), was the Japanese invasion of west Hunan and the subsequent Allied counterattack that occurred between 6 April and 7 June 1945, during the last months of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
The Asiatic-Pacific Theater was the theater of operations of U.S. forces during World War II in the Pacific War during 1941–1945. From mid-1942 until the end of the war in 1945, two U.S. operational commands were in the Pacific.