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WarWorld War II1939 to 1945 (6 years)3000 BCAD 11500TodayThe deadliest conflict in human history: six years, more than 60 countries and an estimated 70 to 85 million dead.Open visual historyWarWorld War I1914 to 1918 (4 years)3000 BCAD 11500TodayThe war that was supposed to be over by Christmas 1914 instead lasted four years, killed some 20 million people and destroyed four empires.Open visual historyWarFrench Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars1792 to 1815 (23 years)3000 BCAD 11500TodayTwenty-three years of almost continuous war that began with a revolution defending itself and ended with all of Europe united against one man.Open visual historyWarCold War1947 to 1991 (44 years)3000 BCAD 11500TodayForty-four years in which the two superpowers never fought each other directly, and yet millions died in proxy wars from Korea to Angola.Open visual historyWarMongol invasions and conquests1206 to 1368 (162 years)3000 BCAD 11500TodayIn the thirteenth century a nomad confederation of perhaps a million people conquered a hundred million, and killed tens of millions doing it.Open visual historyWarCrusades1096 to 1291 (195 years)3000 BCAD 11500TodayTwo centuries of holy wars for Jerusalem that captured the city once, lost it for good in 1187, and ended with the fall of Acre in 1291.Open visual historyWarReconquista718 to 1492 (774 years)3000 BCAD 11500TodayNearly eight centuries of Christian kingdoms pushing south across the Iberian Peninsula, ending in the same year Columbus sailed.Open visual historyWarVietnam War1955 to 1975 (20 years)3000 BCAD 11500TodayTwenty years, over three million dead, more bombs than all of World War II, and a superpower's first outright defeat.Open visual historyWarAmerican Civil War1861 to 1865 (4 years)3000 BCAD 11500TodayFour years that killed more Americans than every other US war combined, ended slavery and decided that the United States was one nation.Open visual historyWarAmerican Revolution1775 to 1783 (8 years)3000 BCAD 11500TodayThirteen colonies of the world's greatest empire declared themselves free, and with French help, made it stick.Open visual history

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