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How much do you know about ancient and modern wars?
According to incomplete statistics, there were 14, 5365 and 438+0 wars in the recorded human history of 5,560 years, with an average of 2.6 wars per year. In the 234 years from 1740 to 1974, * * occurred 366 times, with an average of 1.6 times a year. In the 37 years after World War II, including those wars that are still going on, there were 87 cases. According to the statistics of Swedish and Indian scholars, from 3200 BC to 5 164 in AD 1964, there were 14, 5 13 wars in the world, and only 329 years were peaceful. These wars have brought serious disasters to mankind, resulting in 3.64 billion deaths. When the lost wealth is converted into gold, a gold belt with a width of 150 km and a thickness of 10 m can be paved around the earth.

According to the statistics of scholars in the former Soviet Union, from BC/KOOC-0/496 to AD/KOOC-0/86/KOOC-0/year in 3357, human beings were in a state of war for 3/KOOC-0/30 years, and only 227 years were peaceful.

According to the statistics of a Hungarian professor, in the 37 years after World War II, more than 470 local wars broke out in the world. In the world, there are only 26 days without any war.

According to the investigation report of the Associated Press, the World War II project

World War I

The Second World War

Number of participating countries

33

6 1

Number of neutral countries

17

six

period

1 564 days (4 years, 3 and a half months)

2 194 days (6 years)

Total number of participating countries

65.438+0.5 billion people (accounting for 62% of the world population)

654.38+07 billion people (accounting for 80% of the world's population)

The number of people killed in the war

100000 people

32 million people

Number of injured

20 million people

35 million people

A country on whose territory military operations have been conducted.

14

40

Area of military operation zone

4 million square kilometers

22 million square kilometers

Number of recruits mobilized

70 million people

1100000 people

World War I involved 33 countries with a population of 65.438+0.5 billion. Military operations involve a territory of 4 million square kilometers, with a front length of 2,500-4,000 kilometers. 19 14 The total population of Britain, France and Russia (including colonies) was 704.5 million, and the army force reached 9.777 million when the mobilization was completed; The total population of Germany and Austria (including German colonies) was 65.438+0.3 billion, and the army force was 6.34 million when the mobilization was completed. During the war, the Allies mobilized more than 4,265,438 troops +0.8 million, and lost more than 2,265,438 people +0.5 million, including 565,438 people +0.5 million. Allied forces mobilized 22.85 million troops, with losses of 6.5438+0.54 million, including 3.38 million deaths. The direct war expenses of the warring parties are about 654.38+86.3 million dollars. World war I (1914 ~1918) lasted four years and three and a half months. Thirty-three countries on six continents participated in the war, involving a population of more than 654.38+0.5 billion. The warring parties mobilized more than 60 million troops, including more than 30 million casualties. About 65.438+million people died of hunger and other disasters because of the war, and the economic loss of each belligerent country was about 270 billion US dollars.

Death (10,000 people)

Number of injured (10,000)

Missing and captured (10,000 people)

Total (ten thousand people)

It accounts for% of the total mobilization force.

Casualty rate

Germany

177.4

42 1.6

1 15.3

7 14.3

64.9

1∶2.4

Austro-Hungary

120

362

220

702

90

1∶3

turkey

32.5

40

25

97.5

34.2

1∶ 1.2

Bulgaria

8.7

15.2

2.7

26.6

22.2

1∶ 1.7

Total number of allies

338.6

838.8

363

1540.4

67.4

1∶2.5

Russia

170

495

250

9 15

76.3

1∶2.9

France

135.8

426.6

53.7

6 16. 1

73.3

1∶3. 1

Britain, England

90.8

209

19.2

3 19

35.8

1∶2.3

United States of America

5.34

20.4

0.5

26.2

5.5

1∶3.8

Italy

65

94.7

60

2 19.7

39. 1

1∶ 1.5

other countries

4 1

34.3

28.8

104.2

Total number of allies

507.9

1280

4 12.2

2200.2

5 1.7

1∶2.5

be equal to

846.5

2 1 18.8

775.2

3740.5

57.2

1∶2.5

United States:1.4000 troops participated in the war, and the attrition rate was 7.6%. Among them, 25% died, 6 1% was injured and 14% was missing.

Britain:1.20,000 troops took part in the war, 1.233796 attrition rate 1.3%. 28% of them died, 38% were injured and 34% were missing.

Former Soviet Union: 22 million troops participated in the war, with a reduction of12 million, with a reduction rate of 52.2%.

Germany:170,000 troops participated in the war, with a reduction of 9.9 million and a reduction rate of 58.2%. Among them, 2 1% died, 50% was injured and 29% was missing.

Death toll in World War II

More than 57 million people died in World War II. These include:

Former Soviet Union: 20.6 million people died, making it the country with the largest number of deaths.

Of the 5.75 million former Soviet soldiers captured by Nazi troops, 3.3 million died in prison camps.

Poland: Six million people died, making it one of the countries most ravaged by the Nazis. Only three concentration camps, including Auschwitz, killed 2.9 million Jews.

Germany: 7.3 million people died, including 3.7 million soldiers.

France: 8 10000 people died; Yugoslavia: 6.5438+0.7 million people died; United States: 380,000 people died; Hungary: 420,000 people died; Italy: 330,000 people died, Romania: 370,000 people died; Netherlands: 2 1 10,000 deaths; Greece: 6.5438+0.6 million people died; Finland: 84,000 people died; Bulgaria: 20,000 people died; Norway: 10000 people died. In addition, there are 5 million to 6 million Jews and other races killed by Hitler in European countries; Gypsies were killed by half a million people.

Asian battlefield, China:120,000 people died; Japan: 6.5438+0.8 million people died.

I. The Battle of Pearl Harbor (194 1)

2. Since the end of the Normandy landing (1944), about 300 local wars have broken out, and about100000 people have died in the war. According to the investigation report of the Associated Press, about 300 local wars have broken out since the end of World War II, and about100000 people have died in the war. China is a country with frequent wars. From slave society, feudal society and even modern times, people's uprisings and people's revolutionary wars are frequent; In history, the wars between the ruling class and the princes for cities and land are even more difficult to count. According to historical records, there were about 3,300 wars from Xia Dynasty to Ming Dynasty, more than 400 wars in Qing Dynasty and hundreds of wars in modern times. There are about 4 000 ~ 5 000 wars in the history of our country, accounting for 1/3 of the total wars in the history of the world. As many as 2.3 times a year on average. During this period, 29 times were in Asia, 26 times in the Near East and North Africa, 65,438+07 times in Central and South Africa, 65,438+00 times in Central and South America and 5 times in Europe.